Pilot Suggests Stronger Building
Carol Urban, principal of Agua Dulce Elementary School, considers the aircraft flying in and out of Agua Dulce Air Park a safety hazard to the 430 children at her school. She states that the low-flying aircraft cause her school building to tremble.
Her school is 1 1/2 miles southwest of the airport. When I depart Agua Dulce, at that distance I’m about 1,200 to 1,500 feet above ground level.
If a light aircraft causes her building to tremble at that altitude, Urban indeed has cause to be alarmed about the safety of her children.
She needs a better-built schoolhouse, because that building certainly isn’t going to be safe when the next quake hits.
I should not have to point out to someone who teaches our young that the chances of her pupils experiencing an earthquake in the schoolhouse are many times greater than being “hit” by an aircraft.
JIM DE VRIES
Newhall
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