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Please find attached an excerpt from the Cerritos City
Council Meeting Minutes of September 18, 1986 indicating
the Council's action relative to air safety. This infor-
mation is forwarded to encourage support of efforts for
improved air safety measures.
Your cooperation in presenting the enclosed information to
your City Councilmembers for consideration would be very
much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Caroline deLlamas
City Clerk
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In response to the growing public concern over aviation
safety heightened by the mid -air collision over Cerritos, the
Cerritos City Council took the following action at its meeting
of September 18, 1986.
Mayor Knabe stated, "History does repeat itself. It is
also true that we are doomed to repeat our mistakes if we do
not learn from them.
Time and the cruelties of chance selected Cerritos to
drive home those two truths. Because the aviation industry --
and the public -- failed to learn from the mid -air collision
above the City of Whittier in 1975 and again in 1978 in San
Diego, history has once again repeated itself. In each case,
altimeter encoded transponders that would have made the light
planes and their altitudes visible to radar were not in use.
As a result, we in Cerritos are left with immeasurable loss and
grief.
In 1975, and again in 1978 following the mid -air collision
of a PSA airliner and a light plane, many levels of aviation
interests unleashed an avalanche of responses; much of it
designed to disarm the public below:
-- Our aviation system is too complicated to be understood
by laymen, they said.
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DON KNABE DANIEL K. WONG, M.D. ANN JOYNT DIANA NEEDHAM BARRY A. RABBITT
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-- It isn't necessary for radar to detect all aircraft
because TCA's (terminal control areas) established by
the FAA will keep commercial and private aircraft
separated from each other, the experts said.
-- The public was told 3-D type radar used by the military
to track uncooperative aircraft would be in airport
service in a few years.
We were also told that altitude encoding transponders on
all aircraft would flood radar screens and prevent traffic
controllers from doing their job.
Those things were said 10 years ago. They are being said
again today. It is time for sleight -of -mouth assurances to
stop and meaningful action to BEGIN. It is time for those
altitude encoding transponders to be required on ALL planes
flying in metropolitan areas. The Federal Aviation Trust Fund
has amassed over $8 billion which could be used to help
implement such action. The fund was created to assist aviation
safety by levying an $8 charge on each airline ticket
purchased.
While this City Council does not have the authority to act
directly, it does have the authority of the people to demand
action. We have the authority -- and the responsibility -- to
demand and keep demanding until Congress and the Federal
Aviation Administration take action.
I, THEREFORE, MOVE that the Cerritos City Council:
1) Go on record in support of requiring that all general
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aviation aircraft flying in metropolitan areas be equipped with
operable altimeter encoded transponders and, that all local
control towers be empowered to deny permission for takeoffs or
landings when local traffic is so great as to overburden the
existing radar's ability to manage the airspace;
2) Inform each Member of the California Congressional
delegation and our U.S. Senators of our position on this issue;
3) Direct the City Manager and City Attorney to keep the
Council apprised of all Federal actions on this and other areas
of aviation safety in a timely and regular basis, which should
include recommendations for further Council action as needed."
The motion was seconded by Councilman Rabbitt.
Councilwoman Joynt offered an amendment to the motion that
the City Council include the following points:
4) Indicate support for HR 3905 requiring that the
Secretary of Transportation develop standards for an affordable
air collision avoidance system; and
5) Indicate support for increased and upgraded air
traffic controllers.
Mayor Knabe, the maker of the motion and Councilman
Rabbitt, the second, concurred in the amendment. There were no
objections and it was so ordered.
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