Harrison Ford emergency landing (Crash) in SMO

Images of him getting carted off coming out...
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Well that didn't take long. Nearby residents using this example to shut the airport down. What came first? The airport? Or rich idiots knowingly buying their house next to/near an airport?
 
I have never understood those who buy houses next to an airport and then complain about living next to an airport. It is really not that difficult to place an airport and some type of noise together. The girlfriend and I rented a place recently and noted two items..1) there were train tracks behind another building and 2) there was a bus lot several blocks away. I realized that I would probably hear trains (I do) and that at night the bus lot would be loud (it is). Stunning right?

Now, we do live under the 19 visual into DCA. When I work from home, I enjoy seeing the planes make the left turn to intercept it. The planes are too high to be an issue.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Well that didn't take long. Nearby residents using this example to shut the airport down. What came first? The airport? Or rich idiots knowingly buying their house next to/near an airport?
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Quite honestly, with how much money is being spent trying to keep it open, let them have it, and the plans to build the low income/high density housing they want. It'll bring in the crime that's associated with it, and give them exactly what they asked for. And they can be the example to the rest of the country why airports aren't the devil.
 
mshunter said:
Quite honestly, with how much money is being spent trying to keep it open, let them have it, and the plans to build the low income/high density housing they want. It'll bring in the crime that's associated with it, and give them exactly what they asked for. And they can be the example to the rest of the country why airports aren't the devil.
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Except that isn't usually what happens. The airport gets closed, the developers make a ton of money and pretty much nobody notices.
 
mshunter said:
Quite honestly, with how much money is being spent trying to keep it open, let them have it, and the plans to build the low income/high density housing they want. It'll bring in the crime that's associated with it, and give them exactly what they asked for. And they can be the example to the rest of the country why airports aren't the devil.
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I agree there is some cost/benefit analysis that should be done on saving it. I do remember Meigs Field.... last time I flew into Chicago I remember it being just an empty "park."
 
trafficinsight said:
Except that isn't usually what happens. The airport gets closed, the developers make a ton of money and pretty much nobody notices.
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Trust me. I'm just about a local. They would notice the change in crime. And once the buildings were finished, it would happen over night, and there would be nothing they could do about it.
 
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