Show Air Travel Rated Safer Th Than n Cars v WASHINGTON Feb 11 UP The UP-The The Air Transport of oJ America merica contended Tuesday t that at travel av by airliner has Jias pro proved d three times as as safe as as and taxicab Robert Robert It executive vice president of the the association association association tion so told told the house commerce committee which is seeking causes and cures of plane disasters The regular air lines said had less than one passenger death last year for every miles traveled but are not satisfied with this record and will continue to expend vast amounts of time effort and money to In Increase Increase in- in cr crease ase safety Informed the committee committee com corn that scheduled air lines are advocating use of ra radar ar on planes as a safety device and are attempting at at- tempting to develop a satisfactory satisfactory tory commercial version of the type used during the war On behalf of the association Milton W. W Arnold vice president in charge of operations and engineering engineering engineering engi engi- gave the committee these specific safety recommendations 1 Improved directional aids to bring planes into landing fields in bad weather 2 2 Adoption of ot the ground gound control control con con- trot approach h system another system another bad weather landing procedure e. e 3 High intensity a approach p p pro r o a c h lights extending feet from the runway and for the thc full length of ot the runway 4 Use of ot Fido a a war devel method for tor dispersing fog by fire He estimated installation cost of ot these Improvements improvements' at for the 10 most important cities and at to cover a a. network of oC cities |