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Commissioners unanimously voted to approve the Schlemeyer master plan for the next 20 years. Now the plan will be submitted to the FAA and TxDOT for further review. ....
By Geoff Page In a previous OB Rag piece about the Newport palms, “The City of San Diego and its Forester Misrepresented ‘Immediate Safety Hazard’ in Effort to Remove Point Loma Palm Trees,” the subheading was “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.” That subheading was there because it had been proven that the forester’s and city… ....
seth, i want to ask you. he brought up that point, the landing. the final satellite ping from the aircraft could malaysian authorities say, have come from the ground. and we know that that northern arc, the potential path leads it entirely over ground, heading to north asia. you ve study up on this. are there landing sites there, runways, et cetera, flat areas of the earth where the plane could set down? yeah, as an airport planner we typically look for runway lengths between 6,000 and 8,000 feet for a safe landing for a 777. although in an emergency it could land on 4,000 feet of pavement. there are numerous sites in that large region where that plane could make a landing in 4,000 feet. the issue is those air fields, civil or military, tend to be surrounded by pretty good radar coverage. so it leads to the possibility that an airplane made a safe landing in any of those air ....