Mr. Freeman,

Now that you have acknowledged that the Q400 crash in Buffalo was NOT blamed on the aircraft itself - "The tragic accident of a Q400 aircraft in Upper New York State, this year, in which 70 people lost their lives is now attributed to pilot error and inexperience."

Do you think you might remove the section on the front page of the website where you speculatively (and incorrectly) blamed the Q400 deicing system for the crash?

Here's where the frustration kicks in - Porter has been operating safely for quite a while now and I conservatively estimate they have had close to 35 thousand takeoffs and landings at the TCCA. Doesn't that count for anything?

Mr. Kotyk brings up the Dryden accident that happened 20 years ago as an example of how pilots might not always make a safe decision but somehow the other millions and millions of safe flights (and safe decisions) since then are overlooked. Dryden was a very unfortunate sequence of events that has served to educate flight crews to avoid a repeat of the mistakes that were made. I've worked during many a snowstorm and I've seen flights deice their wings and then go back and do it again because the pilot wasn't satisfied. Perhaps, before Dryden, this would not have been the case.

Unfortunately accidents can and will happen for any combination of reasons.
I'm only saying that if the anti airport community were to scrutinize everything that affects their lives with the same intensity that they do on TCCA operations, they may find many other concerns that are arguably much more significant than the ones being raised about Porter.

Joe