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Related: About this forumSanta Monica council votes to close the city's airport by July 2018
For decades, residents living around Santa Monica Municipal Airport have complained about the roar of aircraft and worried that some day a Piper Cub or Gulf Stream will come crashing into their living room.
The Santa Monica City Council first voted to shut down the airport in 1981. That effort stalled before takeoff, but on Tuesday, Santa Monicas elected officials again pledged to close the historic facility that was once home to Douglas Aircraft Co. but is now the roost of several hundred propeller and jet aircraft, including those owned by celebrities such as actor Harrison Ford.
It wont be easy, however, as the legal opposition from aviation interests and the federal government has not waned since that first attempt 35 years ago.
Today, pilots take off and land more than 300 times a day from the general aviation airport, just a few hundred feet from homes in some areas.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-airport-measure-20160824-snap-story.html
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)The airport opened in 1924.
If somebody lived there in 1923, they have a right to complain about the noise.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)they were on their way to San Diego to pick up a sick kid as part of a nonprofit called Angel Flight. Not the airport's fault, though: the plane had just been repaired, or so he thought. The plane plunged into the ocean rather than into homes, at least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tomarken#Death
Factoid: One of the Whammys for which Press Your Luck was famous featured a Whammy in a biplane plummeting to earth.