August 13, 2001 Issue
"I strongly feel La Guardia is an accident waiting to happen."
-- A New York pilot, "Fear of Flying"
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FEATURES Fear of Flying BY ROBERT KOLKER Sitting on the runway at La Guardia fuming over a delay? Well, fasten your seatbelt. What was once a punctuality problem has become a safety crisis -- "When traffic doubles, the risks don't double. They quadruple," says one expert -- and JFK and Newark are no better off. New York's airports are plagued by out-of-date equipment (yes, that's a rotary-dial phone in the control tower), spotty security, and antiquated runways. But few of the players, from the FAA to the airlines, have any interest in slowing things down.
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