This is a picture of the 1975 World Airways plane which attempted to take off from JFK when it ingested a large number of gulls into the number three engine which EXPLODED! As it had time to stop on the runway, nobody was killed. However, the plane was totally destroyed.
For years the FAA has been endangering the lives of the flying public and Rockaway residents by using a runway which has a large wildlife refuge salt marsh (JoCo Marsh) at its tip.
JFK Airport in New York City is one of the most dangerous airports in the world when it comes to "birdstikes" (the hitting or ingesting of a bird by a plane). JFK Airport alone accounts for almost one quarter all the U.S. birdstike incidents. The danger of flying over the bird preserve is particularly hazardous for the supersonic Concorde which has engines not able to withstand birdstrikes as well as newer planes.
Only last year TWO Concorde engines were set on fire from JFK birds as a Concorde landed. Despite this obvious danger the FAA continues to use the dangerous Runway 22R for most of the Concorde departures! As the spring and fall migration season and summer nesting season nears the possibility of a plane taking off and having its engines shut down by bird ingestion increases.
We have warned the FAA about this in an Environmental Impact Study we forced the federal government to do before they started their annual shooting.
Some have even suggested that the the FAA, the Airlines and the Port Authority WANT a plane to crash from bird ingestion flying over JoCo Marsh. This would give them an excuse for completely destroying the marsh and extend Runway 22 Right even further out into Jamaica Bay. This extension is wanted to handle future heavier cargo and passenger planes.
With the increasing use of two engine planes (Boeing 757,767 and 777), the probability of a "birdstrike" crash caused by JoCo Marsh increases even more.
Sane Aviation For Everyone (S.A.F.E.) and Friends of Rockaway oppose the FAA and Port Authority of NY and NJ efforts to destroy the wildlife on JoCo Marsh, the largest wildlife habitat in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Preserve.
The solution is not to destroy the wildlife habitat. It is to close Runway 22R!
Why wait until hundreds die?(web page creator's note: this page was created a year BEFORE the TWA Flt.800 which departed on JFK Runway 22 Right).
Check out the Sane Aviation For Everyone Inc (S.A.F.E.) w
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