The graphic (website) version of this newsletter can be accessed at:
http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/newsletter435.htm
Quote of the Week: "The FAA is proposing to wreck the tranquility of
Rockland and rain down pollution on it, all without telling us," Rep.
Eliot
Engel, D-Bronx, commenting in a statement on FAA Airspace Redesign Plan.
1000 people attended a New Jersey meeting last week on it.
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Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
#435................................................................................July
1, 2007 Past newsletters can be accessed at:
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Alert For "U.K." Air****ts!!!
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As Bill Sees It: (Editorial): Another Wild Week Of Air****t Disasters? Car
bombs detonated at a Scotland air****t and plane cra****ng into a house
sitting at the end of a Arkansas air****t runway; and the predicted record
Forth of July heavy air****t operations haven't even started yet!!! British
police aren't even sure that the attacks are over and are bracing for
more.
How come American air****ts are not on "high alert?" In Arkansas a small
plane making a landing demolished a house, killing the pilot and a woman
in
the house. This once again shows that noise is not the only danger that
people living near air****ts must endure. You can see by the aerial photo
on
the right that the house was located right at the end of an air****t
runway!!! Perhaps this crash will help wake up the public to pressure
"our"
politicians to either move communities in air****t runway paths or close
the
air****t. Some air****ts, like LaGuardia Air****t in New York City, are
almost
surrounded by heavy residential areas. Will it take a Boeing 747 cra****ng
into a few apartment houses, if even then, for something to be done?
Video Shows Plane Practically Landing On Beachgoer's Heads!!! Speaking of
planes practically landing on the heads of people on the ground. I had to
look at this video two or three times because I couldn't believe it. The
video was apparently taken on the beach which is at the end of a runway of
Princess Juliana Air****t. It looks as if the plane is landing on the beach
itself!!! If this was just a single picture and not a video I would have
said it was doctored by someone using a computer graphics program. Take a
look yourself and make your own judgment.
Airspace Redesign Plan Meeting Gets Community Gets New Jersey Community
Activated!!! Reading a story (see below) this week it was good to see 1000
New Jersey people were not buying FAA lies and excuses. The FAA is
planning
to destroy the quality of life of millions of people with their Airspace
Redesign Plan for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Politicians got scared by the outrage of millions of Americans who
protested
their giving legal status to millions of foreigners who have illegally
entered the U.S. and stopped the plan to give them amnesty. It's going to
take that kind of outrage to stop the FAA's Airspace Redesign Plan.
Politicians, from state assemblymen to U.S. senator have got to realize
they
are going to lose their jobs if they continue to help destroy our
quality-of-life with aviation noise and air pollution. They have to
believe
that people are not going to forget their inaction. According to Robert
Belzer, president of New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise, "The
elected officials in Rockland County and on the federal level have done
virtually nothing,"
San Francisco Air****t Has Closest Near-Colllision In A Decade!!!! Federal
Aviation Administration officials are calling a near-collision on a runway
at San Francisco International Air****t in May the most serious incident of
its kind in at least a decade. The FAA announced Friday it has categorized
the May 26 incident in which a Republic Airlines pilot had to take off to
avoid colliding with a SkyWest Airlines plane on the runway as a level A
incursion. On a scale of incursions from A to D, the most serious is A.
"Every category A is a serious event, and it is a serious concern for us,"
said FAA spokesman Ian Gregor. "This wasn't a procedural issue, this was
caused by a good controller with a lot of experience making a mistake."
The
controller has about 20 years of experience, and since the incursion he
has
had to get recertified for his job, Gregor said. Other than the pilots and
air traffic controllers, it's doubtful anyone knew about the incursion
when
it happened, Gregor said, adding that it did not affect operations at SFO.
So far this fiscal year, there have been 11 category A incursions
nationwide, out of more than 34 million takeoffs and landings. The
severity
of the incursion has sparked the National Trans****tation Safety Board to
investigate as well. "We investigate probably just a handful (of
incursions)
a year," said safety board spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz. According to the
safety board's press release, the incursion happened about 1:30 p.m. when
an
SFO tower controller cleared SkyWest.
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_6270659
Plane Crashes Into House At The End Of The Runway!!! CONWAY, Ark. - A
small
plane crashed into a house on Saturday, killing the male pilot and a woman
on the ground, authorities said. Faulkner County Coroner Patrick Moore
said
at a news conference the woman killed was an occupant of the house, which
is
near Conway Municipal Air****t. Moore said a passenger in the plane and
another person in the house survived. He did not release their names or
the
conditions of the survivors. Authorities said they believe the plane was
trying to land at the Conway air****t, but did not say what might have
caused
the crash or where the plane had come from. It took about two hours to put
out the fire that started after the crash, authorities said. The Federal
Aviation Administration closed the Conway air****t Saturday afternoon. It
was
expected to reopen Sunday. Conway is about 26 miles north of Little Rock.
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/06/30/ap/us/d8q3dlv00.txt
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Im****tant Aviation News Stories This
Week
Rockland officials want FAA meeting on flight path
By KHURRAM SAEED
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: June 30, 2007)
http://www.nyjournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070630/NEWS03/706300369
Rockland officials surprised to learn that Newark-bound planes could be
flying over the county every three minutes by 2011 demanded yesterday that
the Federal Aviation Administration reconsider its planned new route.
From the federal to town levels, elected officials accused the agency of
keeping county residents uninformed about the flight-path changes and
called
on the FAA to hold a meeting in Rockland to discuss the plan's effects.
"The FAA is proposing to wreck the tranquility of Rockland and rain down
pollution on it, all without telling us," Rep. Eliot Engel, D-Bronx, said
in
a statement.
The FAA aims to create a new flight path for arrivals to Newark Liberty
International Air****t that would bring 200 to 400 planes over Rockland
daily. The flights would enter Rockland at an altitude of about 5,000 feet
-
less than a mile - from the north, pass through the heart of the county
and
reach their lowest - and noisiest - levels over Chestnut Ridge.
Newark, N.J., arrivals currently do not fly over Rockland. They travel
farther west, over Orange County.
The FAA, which regulates air traffic nationwide, said the changes were
needed to reduce air congestion and accommodate expected growth in and
around New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia.
On Thursday night, more than 1,000 packed a hotel ballroom in Woodcliff
Lake, N.J., to condemn the FAA's preferred plan. Of the dozens of people
who
spoke, only a handful were from Rockland.
Along with more noise overhead, the plan's critics said, the route would
increase airplane emissions and put residents in densely populated areas
at
greater risk.
The air traffic is planned from 6 a.m. to midnight, with more flights in
the
summer than the winter.
"I feel like we got blindsided," said Eileen Burge, a Palisades resident
who
attended the contentious meeting.
Representatives of Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez - U.S. senators
from
New Jersey who both have publicly opposed the plan - spoke at the meeting,
along with numerous New Jersey officials from the state and local levels.
County Legislator Patrick Withers, D-Suffern, was the only Rockland
representative to speak.
Burge wondered why Rockland's officials weren't as active as their New
Jersey counterparts.
"What happened here?" Burge said yesterday. "How come nobody knew? Now
this
whole thing looks like it's going to happen."
C.J. Miller, spokeswoman for County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef, said
the
county had been petitioning the FAA behind the scenes since August.
"Do we publicize the pressure on the FAA?" Miller said. "No."
Robert Belzer was more critical. He is president of the New Jersey
Coalition
Against Aircraft Noise, which favors rerouting the air traffic over the
Atlantic Ocean.
"The elected officials in Rockland County and on the federal level have
done
virtually nothing," said Belzer, who said he contacted several county and
town officials in Rockland last summer but got no response.
Neighboring Montvale, N.J., has a petition on its official government Web
site imploring elected officials to "stop the FAA from rerouting hundreds
of
planes over the Pascack Valley." As of yesterday, nearly 6,800 residents
had
"signed" the online petition.
Belzer reserved his most severe criticism for the FAA, which he said
purposely did not adequately disclose the project's impact.
"This is deliberately done," he said. "They don't want people to know what
this is going to mean to their communities, otherwise they would never get
anything done."
A re****t in The Journal News yesterday detailed the proposal, which could
increase decibel levels in parts of Ramapo and Orangetown from the mid-30s
to 43 decibels under the redesign.
"Now that we have a pretty good feel for the issue, we're going to begin
being proactive in opposing the policy," Ramapo Deputy Supervisor Phil
Tisi
said.
It may be too late. The FAA plans to issue its final environmental impact
statement next month and its record of decision in August.
"It is outrageous that you are proposing a change that will affect
hundreds
of thousands of people in this county without so much as soliciting
comments
from them," Engel wrote yesterday to FAA administrator Marion Blakey.
Withers and fellow Rockland Legislator Patrick Moroney, R-Pearl River,
called on the county's congressional delegation to help set up a meeting
between the FAA and residents.
"While residents who live near large cities like New York may expect this
sort of aviation activity, Rockland is and remains a suburban and rural
community," their letter stated. "It is extremely unfair to foist this
urban
atmosphere upon Rockland residents."
New York's U.S. senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer,
yesterday called on the FAA to schedule additional hearings in Rockland.
"While we want to make sure we are reducing delays and congestion, we also
want to make sure that the FAA gets it right and listens to the concerns
of
residents," Clinton said in a statement.
Steve Kelley, program manager for airspace redesign, said at the Thursday
meeting that the FAA had no plans to hold more meetings.
Reach Khurram Saeed at ksaeed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or 845-578-2412.
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