Category : From The Web(1166)
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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. -
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. -
2018-08-10
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 -
http://m.atwonline.com/aeropolitics/aviation-groups-us-senate-do-not-include-noise-mandates-faa-bill
Senate bill does not include noise mandates