If I was a state Department of Transportation official, I would have shut down Oahu Parachute Center LLC (OPC) for not having the proper permits (“Company in fatal Mokuleia plane crash didn’t have permit for skydiving,” Star-Advertiser, July 11).

The state waited too long to submit an application for a revocable permit to lease airfield space for skydiving operations to George Rivera, owner of Oahu Parachute Center LLC.

Rivera should have known better what was expected of him to be in compliance. He did not sign the application, which was registered at the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs on June 29, 2017.

OPC shouldn’t have been operating until all of the required documents were filed and approved. DOT gave Rivera too many chances to bring OPC up to compliance.

The shutdown should have been this past April or earlier because OPC wasn’t a registered tenant at the Dillingham Airfield.

Alexis M. Liftee

McCully-Moiliili

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