What of our safety issues?
published: Monday | November 1, 2004

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I REFER to your newspaper's efforts to promote the national interest by seeking to access previously unavailable information under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.

In that context, I refer to the event of a few years ago, which I personally witnessed, when the pilot of an Air Jamaica passenger jet mistakenly made a landing approach over the Liguanea Plains area. My attention was drawn to the situation when the pilot "drew a gear" and when I first saw the jet it was in a steep climb no more than three or four hundred yards over the Mona Heights, Hope Pastures area.

That event raised issues of public safety, national security, emergency management among others which, in my view, should be the subject of public awareness.

The public needs to be satisfied that Jamaica has identified the problem(s) and implemented the solution to ensure that there can be no repeat of the potentially catastrophic situation that occurred.

I am, etc.,

JEFFREY S. MORDECAI

Attorney-at-law