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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: Light Aircraft Crashes In Farnborough Kent |
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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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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Depends whether the airfield was there first. Is it wise to build houses in close proximity to an airfield? _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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Barkingbiker
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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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.
BB _________________ Old Bikers Never Die, our leathers just get tighter! |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:09 am Post subject: |
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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? _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:48 am Post subject: |
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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? _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: | [
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. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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