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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 11:17 PM Aug 2016

Santa 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 Monica’s 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 won’t 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

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Santa Monica council votes to close the city's airport by July 2018 (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2016 OP
I love when people move next to an airport than complain about noise Travis_0004 Aug 2016 #1
Press Your Luck host Peter Tomarken and his wife died after taking off from there KamaAina Aug 2016 #2
 

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)
1. I love when people move next to an airport than complain about noise
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 12:07 AM
Aug 2016

The airport opened in 1924.

If somebody lived there in 1923, they have a right to complain about the noise.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
2. Press Your Luck host Peter Tomarken and his wife died after taking off from there
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 01:39 PM
Aug 2016

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.

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