Pilots, airports deserve praise for evaluating safety issues

Accidents are an unfortunate occurrence in aviation. The recent mid-air collision of two airplanes over Longmont — in which an instructor pilot and student pilot were killed but which another pilot survived — was just the latest example of what can sometimes be deadly skies.

In February 2010, three people were killed when a plane collided with another plane towing a glider near Boulder Municipal Airport.

Fortunately, local flight-school pilots, other pilots and local municipal-airport officials are working to improve the safety of skies over Boulder and Broomfield counties. As Beth Potter reports in this edition, a recent forum at Rocky Mountain…