Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is an issue that has been ongoing for some time. We have had a number of discussions with the Member and also the communities involved and concern over the safety of our aircraft landing in our smaller communities where the runway lights are not always operational and where that could leave our aircraft as it comes into the community for a landing. We have had many occasions where these lights were vandalized and other occasions where the operators did damage to them. We can’t really depend on them being a safe form of providing lighting, flare pots were considered adequate. We plan to continue to use these as a form of lighting for our runways until we can come up with something better or something that would be more reliable. Thank you.
Michael McLeod on Question 77-16(3): Need For Airport Runway Lights
In the Legislative Assembly on February 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Question 77-16(3): Need For Airport Runway Lights
Oral Questions
February 8th, 2009
Deh Cho
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