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Light Aircraft Crashes In Farnborough Kent

 
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mark occomore



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:31 pm    Post subject: Light Aircraft Crashes In Farnborough Kent Reply with quote

Private Jet with 5 people on board has crashed into a housing estate. On the ground one house was completely destroyed. He was making an emergency landing at Biggin hill.

Luckily no one else was killed on the ground.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7321589.stm

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We know Biggin hill has been around for years. Is it suitable to have an increase of aircraft around an residendial area?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Depends whether the airfield was there first. Is it wise to build houses in close proximity to an airfield?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Life is an adventure that includes risk, flying is the safest form of transportation which has brought accessability to many parts of the world which I could not have imagined when I was at school in the 50s. I was an aircraft engineer for 30 years and feel that many people use aviation for convenience yet do not want the risks involved with aviation, hypocrites, IMHO.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Barkingbiker wrote:
Life is an adventure that includes risk, flying is the safest form of transportation which has brought accessability to many parts of the world which I could not have imagined when I was at school in the 50s. I was an aircraft engineer for 30 years and feel that many people use aviation for convenience yet do not want the risks involved with aviation, hypocrites, IMHO.

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Spot on, BB - I always laugh when NIMBYs start spouting off about noisy aircraft in their vicinity - you usually find that the airfield in question was there long before they were. Maybe prospective house buyers should check a little more thoroughly before they buy.... oh, but that would be too easy, wouldn't it?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cherskiy wrote:
Barkingbiker wrote:
Life is an adventure that includes risk, flying is the safest form of transportation which has brought accessability to many parts of the world which I could not have imagined when I was at school in the 50s. I was an aircraft engineer for 30 years and feel that many people use aviation for convenience yet do not want the risks involved with aviation, hypocrites, IMHO.

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Spot on, BB - I always laugh when NIMBYs start spouting off about noisy aircraft in their vicinity - you usually find that the airfield in question was there long before they were. Maybe prospective house buyers should check a little more thoroughly before they buy.... oh, but that would be too easy, wouldn't it?


The only point about that is that the government & the airports have consistently broken their promises over future development of airports. 20 years ago they were saying that they would never build a 3rd runway at Heathrow, yet today they are proposing itr. So should a house buyer living in the pathway of a 3rd Heathrow runway not feel rightly agrieved, if all they are guilty of is believing what the government told them?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:
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The only point about that is that the government & the airports have consistently broken their promises over future development of airports. 20 years ago they were saying that they would never build a 3rd runway at Heathrow, yet today they are proposing itr. So should a house buyer living in the pathway of a 3rd Heathrow runway not feel rightly agrieved, if all they are guilty of is believing what the government told them?


Sorry, gfloyd, should have made it clearer that I was talking about smaller (i.e. general aviation) airfields.
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