Understanding the new program and how we can continue to help If you own a home in Burien, Des Moines, Kent or SeaTac, and have a sound insulation system (called a Port Package), you may be experiencing problems such as mold and water damage to your windows, doors and ceilings. You may also have just
2024-01-20
Two NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigators, identifiable by their agency-marked jackets, handle a fuselage door plug panel — with a window cutout visible — recovered in a residential neighborhood. This corresponds to the January 2024 Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 incident in which a door plug blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 shortly after takeoff from Portland International Airport.
2024-01-09
Two NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigators, wearing agency-marked jackets, examine and recover a large aircraft door plug panel found on a residential lawn. The panel, which has a window cutout, is consistent with the door plug that detached from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 (Boeing 737 MAX 9) in January 2024, with debris recovered in the Portland, Oregon area.
2023-12-24
Alaska Airlines flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, demonstrate with yellow picket signs reading 'Alaska Makes $$$$ We Can't Make Rent' and 'Pay Us or Chaos.' The protest reflects a labor dispute over wages between the union and Alaska Airlines management.
2023-07-28
A Boeing 777 engine (Pratt & Whitney PW4000) is shown on fire and with its cowling torn away, photographed from a passenger window seat. This image is widely recognized as being from United Airlines Flight 328, which suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff from Denver International Airport on February 20, 2021.
As we’ve written many times, Port of Seattle Commissioner is the most consequential vote on any ballot for airport community voters. But it is also the most difficult choice because position information on the issues we care about most is so difficult to find. Candidates focus on issues of concern to every constituency except airport communities.
We wrote an article called Anatomy of An Air Quality Monitoring Network. This article explains why building that system is so important to the future of Sea-Tac Airport Communities. It also describes a far more generalized problem in obtaining environmental mitigation. History In the world of engineering there is an expression: “No data, no problem.”
2023-06-01
What we have now This is one portion of the current Puget Sound Clean Air Agency air quality monitoring network map. The stars belong to PSCAA. The dots are rando PurpleAirs that belong to members of the public, they are irrelevant to this discussion. Airport Scroll down on that map to the airport. Notice something
2023-04-03
This is our successful 2023 grant application from 4Culture.org Under The Flight Path: A community history of Sea-Tac Airport A documentary of the Airport Communities of Sea-Tac from 1959 until today: Tukwila, Normandy Park, Des Moines, Federal Way, SeaTac and Burien. This will be the first modern history of South King County and also the
2022-10-25
Why Seattle needs to start taking wildfire smoke more seriously | The Seattle Times This article hits on something that has needed to be talked about for a very long time. The denialism people have had about air quality cannot be under-estimated. When I worked in Detroit, people were well aware of lead emissions for
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