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I am just watching this on Fox, Channel 11 here in Los Angeles. A Boeing 737 Southwest Airlines jet landed hard at Burbank Airport and somewhat missed the runway. The plane ended up at a Cheveron gas station and on top of several cars. Now why would someone build a gas station next to a runway? I don't get it, unless the owner expected planes to go there for bathroom breaks...
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Well, presumably, the owner also didn't expect a plane to land anywhere besides the runway.
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It's what we like to call urban sprawl here in LA. When the airport was built, it was in the middle of a general nowhere. And now it's surrounded by gas stations and houses.
Ontario is the same way...and goodness knows there is little tolerance for error around John Wayne airport.
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If you think having a gas station next to an airport is bad enough, try New York City. There's La Guardia, JFK, and Newark, all within close proximity of each other. Most of these airports are surrounded by residential space, crowded highways, AND gas stations.
If anyone has ever flown to Hong Kong before the new airport opened, you would have noticed how close planes get to adjacent apartment buildings on approach to the old airport. Pilots would regularly call that run a real challenge. One false move and you could either be hurtling towards an apartment skyscraper, or towards the water that surrounds the runway.
Trust me. I've been there.
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