Re "Crash Exposes Perils of Rides for Sightseers" (first page, March 13):
Five travelers kicked the bucket when a New York City touring helicopter collided with the East River on Sunday night. A few contemplations on counteracting further silly passings:
Such helicopters ought to be required to have lasting unbending boats, since around Manhattan the main safe place they can arrive in a crisis is on water. The shaky inflatable boats turned out to be useless as the helicopter flipped over in the water. "In any case, that will utilize more fuel!" helicopter administrators will state. At that point raise your tolls.
There ought to be an ace tie discharge that can be actuated by the pilot or any traveler to permit snappy departure from the travelers' bridles.
Hold a challenge among school designing understudies to get numerous brilliant plans to make these helicopter rides more secure.
ARTHUR M. TELCHIN, NEW YORK
The essayist is a mechanical designer and innovation hazard advisor.
To the Editor:
Numerous speculations about the traveler passings in the helicopter crash in Manhattan have been said, including the way that it was an entryways off flight.
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Another huge factor might be behind the crash. A few visits fly with single-motor helicopters, while others utilize twin-motor helicopters. The Eurocopter AS350 that slammed on Sunday night was a solitary motor helicopter.
A solitary motor helicopter is for the most part viewed as generously less protected on the grounds that there isn't a reinforcement motor in the event that the essential motor comes up short. Some of my companions who fill in as team individuals on air therapeutic flights decline to fly on single-motor helicopters for wellbeing reasons.
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Given that we trust that motor disappointment was engaged with the Sunday night crash, I trust that policymakers will consider potential confinements on single-motor helicopters for visits — particularly visits including entryways off helicopter flights.