Another black eye for GA

Hi all,

Recently, Tom Sixkiller posted:

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"David H" wrote:
Damned if they're going to let CBS out-alarm them!
This is war!

Well, I didn't see how it was covered on Faux News, but on
CBS (which apparently now stands for Complete Bull Sh*t)
they asked rhetorically why the Cherokee wasn't intercepted
by fighters and shot down.

Yep, that trumps the "NUCLEAR POWER PLANT!!!!" hand waving from
Faux. It will be interesting to see how they top it.

Was, or wasn't he, flying adjacent to a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT? You
know...the worst possible security risk?

What's the security risk, here? What do you think would happen if someone
flew a Cherokee into a plant?
Here are some things to consider:

* The easiest "target" would be one of the cooling towers. A Cherokee
would simply compact itself on the side of the towers and fall off.

* The reactor in the plants around here is surrounded by other buildings.
It would be *very* difficult to hit the building that contains the
reactor. But, the result of doing so with a Cherokee would be similar to
the result of the 172 that hit the office building in Fla. You might break
a window or two in the building.

The fear of danger caused by someone flying a GA plane into a nuclear
power plant is simply irrational. There is a *far* greater risk of
catastrophe from poor maintenance practices in the every day use of these
plants, as can be exemplified by the Davis-Besse fiasco that we're dealing
with here in Ohio.

I sure hope that the population of this country gets a clue sometime soon.

Neil

I've landed at this airport a number of times and I can assure you
that everyone that flys there is flying adjacent to the power plant.
That's why runway 28 has a right hand pattern. If it were a left hand
pattern you would be able to look right down into the cooling towers
while turning crosswind to downwind. This fellow did a lot of things
wrong, but as far as the power plant goes he was the same as any other
pilot flying into PTW.
Rich Russell

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:20:14 -0700, "Tom Sixkiller"
wrote:


"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...
"David H" wrote:
Damned if they're going to let CBS out-alarm them!
This is war!

Well, I didn't see how it was covered on Faux News, but on
CBS (which apparently now stands for Complete Bull Sh*t)
they asked rhetorically why the Cherokee wasn't intercepted
by fighters and shot down.

Yep, that trumps the "NUCLEAR POWER PLANT!!!!" hand waving from Faux. It
will be interesting to see how they top it.

Was, or wasn't he, flying adjacent to a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT? You know...the
worst possible security risk?

Dan, you sound like you're trying to fill in the blanks of your
pre-conceived notions.