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vs “alts: ‘strictly a motion for
elimination of hazards to
. flights,” director Les Wat-
_mough said as he put forward a
motion to have ‘all . prescribed
» forest burning banned within a
‘10-mile. radius of the Terrace-
_ Kitimat airport. The rest of the

Kitimat- Stikine | Regional
. District: board agreed, and the

-. motion passed at the. board’s: .

~ Oct. 21 meeting.
-‘Watmough brought up the

issue in response to a fatal crash .

_ that occurred at the airport Sept.
26. Although ‘Canadian ‘Avia-

tion Safety: Board inspectors —

- have not said smoke was a factor
~- in the accident,. visibility at the

» time was. limited due to fog and .

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two prescribed burns had béen 7
lit the previous day on logged-.

over sites near the.airport.
Terrace director. Robert

Cooper pointed out that the in-
vestigators’ report hasn’t been:

issued, ‘‘so we don’t know what

happened’’, but he added that

obscured visibility-due to smoke
could. have seriously hampered
rescue efforts if there had been
any « survivors “in the crash.
Cooper said that smoke, unlike
fog, blots out vertical visibility
— it could have made a critical
difference if rescue forces had

been searching for survivors and

wreckage on the ground’ from a
helicopter.
. _ Watmough, who said he had

examined weather office records

‘from the hours before: the crash,

said, “It’s up to us to eliminate
every ‘problem we can....if we
have any chance of having an ef-
fect, it should be acted on.’
~The motion passed and will be
addressed to the Ministry. of
Forests, ‘but. before the vote
board chairman Jack Talstra

‘noted that he did not want the

resolution linked with the recent
crash, saying that he didn’t want
it to appear that the board.is try-..

ing. to-create"a ‘political’ *advan-

tage at the. expense of the
airlines. .

Telegraph Creek director Dan
Pakula also reminded the board
that a previous) resolution ‘calling

for a moratorium on prescribed os

burns in.the entire Kalum Forest
District pending: the outcome of

‘studies to evaluate the technique

as a site preparation method had
been ignored by the Forest Ser-
vice.

In another move directed at.

Regional district call for halt to burning

on the issue, : -but hie estimated .
that: the recent: Skylink. crash ~
cost’ about: $9 million when 4
everything is - factored.

“Without meaning to sound
callous, that:. was -a- small
disaster. Think of what. would
happen if a737 went down.”?

the airport, Watmough entered —

a motion to have the regional.

districtts. records of | corres-

pondence. “regarding a landing -
to Transport’
Canada, accompanied with a de-.
mand for either an Instrument; *:

system — sent

Landing System or Microwave
Landing System here. Wat-
mough noted that... ‘‘money
seems to be the overriding
cause’? of government inaction

- Kitimat director. John- ‘Lesage
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sive and there’s no reason why
the . government | -shouldn’t go.

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