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It's a small town in a remote area, I expect the answer is simply that things break and take time to be fixed. And I bet nighttime landings are uncommon
by whats_a_quasar 5y ago
It's a small town in a remote area, I expect the answer is simply that things break and take time to be fixed. And I bet nighttime landings are uncommon
- aksss 5y agoThe government funds the airport, the lights, the runway like at every small village in Alaska that has an airport. It’s because local ‘kids’ broke them all running by on quads with bats for funsies, counting on the feds or state to just replace them time after time - it costs the village nothing until it does. Rando source with lede buried in bottom paragraph but I’m sure one could find more local ones with some digging: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-runway-lights-failed-so-villagers-used-their-headlights-to-aid-an-airlift/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-runway-lights-...