Private Planes

Re “4 Victims of Midair Collision Loved to Fly,” Feb. 9: Your article makes this public nuisance hobby sound romantic. I don’t enjoy hearing of the untimely death of anyone.

But face it, these private planes are a public nuisance, a major source of noise and chemical pollution. Small private planes should go the way of the horseshoe and be displayed in museums as dumb relics of the barnstorming era.

MELVIN D. THOMAS

Laguna Hills