Crash at Santa Monica 9/29/13

goes to Sun Valley alot . .. its not Harrison Ford's bird, is it?
 
Typical media GA story. "hit a hangar and reportedly hit a building." Really?
 
well, ok. Be bad for a GA ambassador to crash on landing - not that its ever good to crash anywhere but there are degrees of bad and good . . .
 
Media is reporting, a witness thought a tire blew upon landing.
 
LDJones said:
Yep....more ammo for the anti-SMO forces. Those who oppose airports should be banned from all air travel and express package delivery services for life.
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The anti-SMO forces includes folks on the airport commission:

Early Monday morning, David Goddard, chairman of the Santa Monica Airport Commission, estimated that the crash site was about 150 feet from residences. Had the plane not hit the hangar, it could have gone up an embankment and gotten over a wall before slamming into homes, he said.

“We’ve been attempting to get the City Council to reduce operations at the airport,” Goddard told the Los Angeles Times. The assumed fatalities "were tragic, but I was certainly grateful that it happened on the tarmac ... versus off the end of the runway.”
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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-santa-monica-airport-crash-20130930,0,7549378.story
 
wsuffa said:
The anti-SMO forces includes folks on the airport commission
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Being anti-airport is basically the current function of the airport commission. The majority are neighbors who see it as their role to come up with and advise the City Council every possible new idea for how airport operations can be further restricted or the airport can be shut down. Commission Chair David Goddard is the most vocal and persistent of this bunch. Every meeting is more-or-less a mutual admiration society between the commission and the handful of neighbors and activists who regularly show up, talking about the evils of noise and pollution, and berating airport and city staff with questions that show a profound ignorance of both aviation and of the legal situation the city is in vis-a-vis the FAA.
 
Neil Rubin said:
Being anti-airport is basically the current function of the airport commission. The majority are neighbors who see it as their role to come up with and advise the City Council every possible new idea for how airport operations can be further restricted or the airport can be shut down. Commission Chair David Goddard is the most vocal and persistent of this bunch. Every meeting is more-or-less a mutual admiration society between the commission and the handful of neighbors and activists who regularly show up, talking about the evils of noise and pollution, and berating airport and city staff with questions that show a profound ignorance of both aviation and of the legal situation the city is in vis-a-vis the FAA.
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Is it not possible for a few local pilots to get on this commission, or are you locked out?
 
Dav8or said:
Is it not possible for a few local pilots to get on this commission, or are you locked out?
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There have been pilots on the commission in the past, and there was a pilot who applied the last time there was a vacancy. But, I think the chances of the city council appointing a pilot these days are slim.

The thing is, the commission has no power at all. It exists to make recommendations to the city council on policy and to hold non-binding votes on things like commercial operator permits which are ultimately decided by the city manager. For the most part, the council, airport management, city attorney, and the like simply ignore the commission, when they aren't wasting their time explaining (in an oblique and lawyerly way) why most of the commission's various proposals are illegal. In a way, it gives the anti-airport types a way to blow off steam without actually accomplishing anything to close the airport. In the current climate, I don't see how having a pilot on the commission would actually help anything.
 
http://abcnews.go.com/US/small-plan...port-unsurvivable-officials/story?id=20418804

A southern California building company CEO and his son are believed to be among the victims who were on board a private jet that crashed after it landed at a Santa Monica Airport on Sunday night.

While the cause of the crash is unclear, Morley Builders CEO Mark Benjamin and his son, Luke, a senior project engineer, were on board the plane, according to a statement by Vice President Charles Muttillo on the company's website.
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