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jesus, that's terrifying. The pilot has control of the plane all the way down but nowhere to even attempt a landing. All he can do is raise the flaps, deploy
by snickerbockers 1y ago
jesus, that's terrifying. The pilot has control of the plane all the way down but nowhere to even attempt a landing. All he can do is raise the flaps, deploy the landing gear and hope for the best.
Although TBH it also seems like a failure of city planning, aren't most major airports outside of the limits of the city they're associated with because of stuff like this? I know most of them don't have anywhere safe to attempt an emergency landing immediately after leaving the runway but at least there aren't a bunch of homes and office buildings.
- navigate8310 1y agoThis is India we are talking about. The population density and surrounding encroachment is usually why even small domestic cylinder blast could take lives of 100s.
- placardloop 1y agoNo, they’re not. Of the 20 largest airports in the US, all but one of them have homes and offices surrounding them. The one that doesn’t is Denver, that’s mostly only because Denver’s airport is relatively new and the development hasn’t reached it yet.
- snickerbockers 1y agothat's actually not true and it's very easy to disprove because SFO is in the top 20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_i.... I'm sure this is an airport most of the people on this site are familiar with but just in case you aren't, it's on reclaimed land in the San Francisco bay.
- placardloop 1y agoThere’s a massive, incredibly dense neighborhood of houses and offices less than 1000 feet to the south, west, and north of every one of SFOs runways.
- Ar-Curunir 1y agoSFO is surrounded by numerous highways, office buildings, and residential areas
- snickerbockers 1y agowell yeah but im talking about the part where the planes land not the terminal.
- dghlsakjg 1y agoThere runway thresholds are closer to the neighborhoods than the entire terminal except a few A terminal gates. Go look at a satellite view of SFO.
- dghlsakjg 1y agoIt is 400m from the threshold of 19L/1R to the nearest residential neighborhood at SFO. LGA, which is an incredibly urban airport has the exact same distance from the end of its closest runway to the nearest residential area.
- dghlsakjg 1y agoThey put airports where there is room to put them. Frequently that means that they are well outside cities since finding space for a few 2 mile runways in the city is difficult. However, there are plenty of airports in major cities and built up areas (in both developed and developing countries), and I have never heard of avoiding building in areas due to the (remote) possibility of crashes.
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- roncesvalles 1y agoMost major airports were established long ago (sometimes centuries ago) in land that used to be remote. Cities eventually expand into the surrounding area.