[Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg

[Sean Hoyden]

Which is really just a "kick the dog to feel good" solution.  I'm sure,
the folks on that plane didn't wake up thinking they'd go crash into a
house today, and would have gladly chosen a better time and location to do
so had the opportunity presented itself to them.

Plane could crash into a house at 8AM as easily as it could at 10AM or
3PM.​

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Dan Blasberg <ka8ypy at verizon.net> wrote:

> While it might not be forced to close, they could do what happened to the
> nations oldest and continually operational airport (College Park) and
> restrict the hours of operations.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Dec 8, 2014, at 4:20 PM, John Wilson <w4uvv at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > :-) Marketing what.. a nice lot on which to build your dream home and
> located close to an airport? "Airpark" to me implies a unique aviation
> facility where the area's affluent population can use and store their
> private aircraft or welcome their affluent flying friends. Regardless,
> those complaining residents basically have two choices as that airport will
> not be closed...too much money and politics are involved.  The first choice
> is shut up and endure and the second is shut up and move if they can afford
> to which most cannot.  If not relocating is not an option then the first
> choice applies.  They knew the risks and dangers of living near any airport
> anywhere.. Metro DC residents just have been very lucky for the past 60+
> years that more private aircraft, which include the experimenters, have not
> crashed in a populated area.  I am sorry for the deaths of the crash
> victims and possible inured residents of the house it crashed into but I do
> not have any sympathy for those who
>   chose to live near an airport.  The law of averages finally happened as
> it eventually will.
> >
> > John
> > .
> > Ed Tobias wrote:
> >> Marketing. Just like the county's "equestrian park" in Boyd's. I call
> it a stable.
> >>
> >> Ed
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On Dec 8, 2014, at 3:44 PM, John Wilson <w4uvv at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What is the difference between and airpark and an airport excluding
> the difference in spelling?
> >>>
> >>> John
> >>>
> >>> Dewey3 wrote:
> >>>> The point is still made... airpark first, houses came along later.
> Yet,
> >>>> those who moved in near an airpark suddenly have a problem with the
> airpark
> >>>> being "so close"
> >>>>
> >>>> Dewey
> >>>> On Dec 8, 2014 3:00 PM, "Doug Kitchener via Scan-DC" <
> >>>> scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> correction, airpark opened 1960... sorry about that... I was
> thinking of
> >>>>> Davis over in Laytonsville that opened in 1949.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>>> From: Doug Kitchener via Scan-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> >>>>>> To: "scan-dc at mailman.qth.net" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> >>>>>> Cc:
> >>>>>> Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 2:36 PM
> >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Right across the main road from where I live... I was on the way to
> work
> >>>>> and had
> >>>>>> stopped in the Dunkin donuts down near the other end of the
> airpark...
> >>>>> large
> >>>>>> black column of smoke.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Airpark opened in 1949 - houses there were built in the 1980s...
> people
> >>>>>> interviewed are already yelling about the airpark.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ch 9 had good coverage on their website, I haven't looked anywhere
> >>>>> else...
> >>>>>> at least 3 on the plane were killed.  Last I heard, it sounded like
> FD
> >>>>>> hadn't made entry into the house yet.
> >
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