by Lee Stoll Thu, September 6th 2018 at 12:08 AM Updated Thu, September 6th 2018 at 3:32 PM Many teachers in the Highline School District may be used to asking students to be quiet in class, but there’s not much they can do about jet noise from nearby Sea-Tac International Airport. (Photo: KOMO News) BURIEN, Wash. –
Seattle Business: How Sea-Tac Is Trying to Keep Pace With Seattle’s Unprecedented Growth
A booming economy has Sea-Tac Airport trying to keep up and some neighbors are worrying about the impact.
Who Killed Lesser Seattle?
A good article from 2005 on the rapidly changing feel of this area by Knute Berger. Not an airport article per se, but interesting and prescient.
Route Fifty – Critical Priorities for Local Government
A Candid Survey of Local Government Officials and Agency Leaders. Shows why Sea-Tac activists -must- be more vocal in order to be heard.
KIRO7 TV: Sea-Tac developing $4 billion plan that includes new terminal
Airport Noise Law – Airport Noise & Capacity Act 1990
A great article describing ANCA in broad strokes.
JDA Journal: Great Journalism on a Horrible Aviation Tragedy
Excellent overview of this event, with lots of details on every aspect of the event.
The Stranger SLOG: I Worked With Richard Russell at Horizon Air, and I Understand Why He Did What He Did
An op/ed by a worker at the airport. Their conditions are terrible. As employees of subcontractors to the airlines, they don’t even make the $15/hour other airport workers get.
The Atlantic/James Fallows: The Lessons of the Seattle Plane Crash
James Fallows is an avid private pilot and knows airports well. This article provides a very reasonable takeaway of the event and lots of good links to learn all the details.
2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident
From Wikipedia: On August 10, 2018, a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 was stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport (Sea–Tac) in SeaTac, Washington. The perpetrator, 29-year-old Richard Russell, was a Horizon Air ground service agent with no piloting experience. He performed an unauthorized takeoff and two McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighters were subsequently scrambled to