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For years I have been talking about the danger of using a JFK runway (22
right) that has a bird nesting area (Joco Marsh) at it's end. http://pages.prodigy.com/uzac16a/joco3.jpg Rather than redirect this runway to its original location, over the middle of Jamaica Bay, the FAA and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has opted to continue using this dangerous runway. This is the same runway that the ill-fated Flight 800 took off from runway 22 right over this same bird nesting area. The NTSB has never definitely determined the cause of this crash as being a fuel tank explosion which they say was the "probable cause." The possibility of this plane being brought down by birds was never even considered even by the many conspiracy theorists who flooded the Internet with their opinions after the crash. Perhaps after Thursday's crash of the Airbus 320, DEFINITELY due to bird collisions with a jetliner, the FAA and Port Authority will move the JFK Airport Runway 22 away from a bird preserve...but I doubt it. More likely they will institute a massive wildlife eradication program. I no longer live in Rockaway, NY City but still think that using this runway is very dangerous for the flying public and the residents of Rockaway, which only recently (Dec. 2001) had a departing JFK Airport plane crash into their community. http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/11/1...ash/index.html Bill Mulcahy, editor of the Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm |
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