![]() |
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
![]() "Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk @See My Sig.com wrote in message ... Ban homebuilts and Cessna 150's??? What is he thinking? Isn't he concerned about aviation safety? This makes no sense at all. Did Mr. Walker learn NOTHING from 9/11? How could he be so unaware? Isn't the danger presented by large transport aircraft painfully clear? Does he have any concern for public safety at all? Yes, small aircraft are sometimes involved in accidents - but what is the outcome? Beyond the occupants, it exceedingly rare to involve any innocent bystanders at all. But what happens when one of the flying WMDs comes down in a populated area? THOUSANDS DEAD!!! Can you imagine what would happen if a fully loaded 767 were to experience problems and crash in to a crowded casino - spewing 5,000 gallons of jet fuel onto thousands of innocent, unsuspecting people? People that he is supposed to be protecting! How can he, or any of us, live with ourselves knowing that this kind of tragedy isn't just possible, but given time, inevitable? How can he continue to turn a blind eye to this tremendous threat to human life? How can we not DEMAND that these large aircraft be banned from flying over or landing in the vicinity of a populated area? Clearly, at a MINIMUM, any aircraft with a gross weight over 30,000 pound should absolutely forbidden to approach within 50 miles of a populated area. And, I suspect, that if Mr. Walker were to consider this carefully, he would agree that the only way that we can be safe is if large aircraft are banned from the sky completely. We went to war with Iraq over WMDs, why do we ignore the ones flying over our heads every day? Good, very good. You have me convinced. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Experimentals To Be Banned To Rural Airports? | T. \Tim\ Timothy Haag aka HyoogeUmp56[_2_] | Piloting | 214 | September 9th 08 11:02 PM |
2nd cellphone for retrieve/rural areas US | chris | Soaring | 6 | May 4th 08 07:47 PM |
Red Arrows banned from olympics - British PC strikes again | stevehaley | Soaring | 13 | October 5th 07 07:01 PM |
Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit? | Dylan Smith | Piloting | 42 | August 31st 04 03:10 PM |
Airshows should be banned...Now! | Tetherhorne P. Flutterblast | Military Aviation | 28 | June 15th 04 02:43 AM |