Planes leaving Lindbergh Field go just north of Ocean Beach
Author
Gary Wonacott,
Lowest line represents departures over Ocean Beach. Middle line depicts nighttime noise abatement departure over the jetty. Upper line shows departures over South Mission Beach.
In 1979, all of the departures between 10 pm and 6:30 am were moved from lowest line to the middle line. Recently the upper line was implemented that concentrated the departures over South Mission Beach.
In 1979, the City and the Port Commission approved a noise abatement measure that moved all of the post-10 pm departures leaving Lindbergh Field from Ocean Beach to Mission Beach in a letter of agreement. There was no environmental assessment performed by the FAA, which was required even then to ensure that noise was not being moved from one community to another.