SP to probe flying school operations
LINGAYEN–Prompted by another accident at the Lingayen Airfield, the provincial board is set to conduct a probe into the operation of a flying school that uses the airfield and has been the subject of a complaint by residents of a nearby community in Binmaley.
Second district Board Member Von Mark Mendoza, chair of the Blue Ribbon Committee, said he will file a resolution seeking to investigate the flying school’s operations and the hazards that these pose to the residents of Barangay Baybay Lopez in Binmaley.
The community’s petition, dated February 29, 2008, says, “We are deeply concerned and much worried about our safety, in addition to the infringement of our civil right against noise pollution”.
“Even babies in our growing barangay have become restless and are always shocked with this noise and are, therefore, unnecessarily disturbed in their sleep,” the petition added.
A single engine, two-seater Cessna plane recently landed erratically on the airfield with its nose on the ground on Sunday, the second accident this year.
The issue will initially be discussed during the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s (SP) regular Question Hour.
The SP has invited representatives from the Air Transportation Office (ATO), the owners of the flying school, and the concerned community.
There are currently some 50 trainees who have their daily actual aviation practice using three single engine Cessna two-seater planes.
Meanwhile, Mariano Trinidad, officer in charge of ATO local office here, said the official under the safety division from their main office is also set to conduct a probe on Sunday’s incident.
Around 10:25 a.m. Sunday, Nachikita Raval, 19, an Indian national, was in command of RPC 8204 Cessna plane solo flight, when it touched down the spill of the threshold slightly to the runway 08 centerline about 300 meters away.
This caused the aircraft to make a tail up facing nosedive, according to an initial report of Eduardo Jimenez, civil security unit of the local ATO here.
The report added that the plane skidded on the left side of the runway causing substantial damage on the right wing, landing gears, nose engine, and propeller of the plane.
Raval, who was under flight instructor Capt. Sherwin Nocus, was reportedly unhurt. #
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