[Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg

Mon Dec 8 17:24:06 EST 2014

I certainly do not feel good about the accident. I try to live in the 
real world.  It was the law of averages time for the pilot which 
happened to occur at that location at that time.  For example, the 
average driver will be involved in an average of 2 accidents in his or 
her driving "life" time.  I certainly can attest that those statistics 
(odds) are correct.  I have been driving since 1955 and have been 
involved in 2 accidents one of which thankfully there were not injuries 
but it was my fault.  The other was not my fault. In 2001 I was rear 
ended driving.  I had a few spinal column inflamed disc issues but thank 
God they shrunk in size and healed over a 6 month time period.  I live 
on a heavily traveled road with fast traffic.  My mailbox is across the 
road.  My life is at risk every time I cross that road to get my mail.  
That's life.  You take things as they come and deal with them as best 
you can..

John

Sean Hoyden wrote:
> 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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