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The Sept. 2 Voice of the people “Safety is ignored when kids ride on laps in planes” makes the statement that allowing children to ride on parents’ laps is a dangerous practice.
Letter writer Jan Lohr forgets the economics that will change the safety equation. As the father of a 2-year-old who has been on airplanes several times, I can say that my family would have had to choose to drive in certain cases if we had had to purchase a ticket to get my daughter aboard a plane.
More people die each year in cars than in all forms of air travel combined.
Is my daughter more safe in a car for eight hours on a U.S. highway or for two hours in the safest form of transportation in the world?
My instincts tell me the airplane is safer.
