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When I read the article my impression of the way it was written was that the runway was unsafe and the reason was because of some ordinance of which had nothing to do with the fact of was it safe or not. The final decision to land at any runway is always up to the PIC. From what I read the runway nor the owner of the property had anything to do with this horrible accident. Just my 2 cents for what it is worth.

Dick

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From: RicArgente@cs.com

Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 4:14 AM

To: lml@lancaironline.net

Subject: [LML] Re: Grant Bailey

In a message dated 10/22/2002 6:46:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, hwasti@starband.net writes:

An e-mail of complaint to the editors of editors AvWeb is in order.

AVweb responds...
The brief item in question was based on a comprehensive and detailed examination of the issue in the Spokane Spokesman-Review. There is no speculation in the minds of county officials as to the status of the strip in terms of their zoning ordinances, and the owners provided the information about referring to it as a road. How the construction of private airstrips in violation of local ordinances advances the GA cause is a mystery to me, as is the apparent perception that our accurate portrayal of the facts in this case is somehow anti-GA. In fact, the whole airstrip issue was incidental to the fact that two people died and another was hurt.
Russ Niles
AVweb Writer