Quote of the Week:  : "If we redesigned the east coast of the united States would we put the airport in this spot? Maybe not. But it's here" Anthony Coscia, Port of New York and New Jersey Authority Chairman commenting after another crash at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport

Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter #327.......................................................................................June 5, 2005 Past newsletters can be accessed at: http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm  The PASSUR airport flight tracking system at http://www.passur.com/sites.htm (you must have Java installed to view it) Bill Mulcahy rockaway@prodigy.net

Another Study Says Aircraft Noise Is Hurting Children!!! 

As Bill Sees It: (Editorial) New Study Says Plane Noise Affects Children's Cognitive Development!!! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that planes flying 24 hour-a-day over a residential communities is going disturb the concentration of not only children, but everyone under the flight path. Children have been focused on in studies because the damage effects their development more. Of course this, and other noise studies on children was not done in the United States.  In 1981, the aviation industry-bought congress has removed all funding for the EPA's Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC) for main purpose of stopping any such government-funded studies. Just watch the FAA, congress and the phony, "no child left behind" Bush Administration totally ignore this latest study about how aviation is affecting the health and development of children. I was amazed to see that CNN had the noise study as their lead story on Saturday afternoon. However, in the evening it wasn't even mentioned at all!!! No doubt somebody in the Aviation Cabal got on the phone and read the riot act to CNN.  Yet ANOTHER Plane Crash At New Jersey's Teterboro Airport!!! As if to prove once again why flying in a small plane is TWENTY TIMES more dangerous than riding in a car, there was another crash, the third this year, at the "general aviation" Teterboro Airport. This is bringing calls for a twenty-five percent  "reduction" in flights at this constantly expanding airport. Why only reductions? Why not call for the closing of this dangerous, environmental atrocity? Let the business executives take a limo or use the regular airlines. I'm sure the Teterboro location could be used for some other purpose that could generate jobs for those who would lose them by the closing of Teterboro. The attitude of government is that the airport is already there and that if the people who live there don't like THEY should move.

New Study Says Children Hurt By Constant Aircraft Noise!!! Exposure to high levels of aircraft noise could impair the development of reading and memory in children, suggests a study published in this week's issue of The Lancet. In the largest study of its kind to date, Stephen Stansfeld (Barts and the London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, UK) and colleagues, assessed the effects of road traffic and aircraft noise on children's cognitive development and health. Over 2800 children, aged 9-10 years, from 89 primary schools located near three major airports-Schiphol in the Netherlands, Barajas in Spain, and Heathrow in the UK-took part in the study. The investigators assessed aircraft and road traffic noise levels around the schools, and compared these levels to the results of cognitive tests and health questionnaires. As exposure to aircraft noise increased, impairments in reading comprehension and recognition memory also rose significantly, the report indicates. This held true after factoring in the mothers' education level, socioeconomic status, long-standing illness, and the extent of classroom insulation against noise. 

Will Aviation Air Pollution Be Included In Europe's Emissions Trading Scheme? Emissions from aviation are growing at such a rapid rate that they could effectively make emissions initiatives in other sectors redundant, according to new research. The Tyndall centre for climate change research has said that emissions targets set by the UK will be nearly impossible to meet if aviation emissions continue to grow at the current rate. It warned that by 2037 aviation emissions will be taking up the entire "emissions budget" for the UK, rendering other sectors unable to release any emissions at all if Britain is to stay within environmental limits. Environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE), which commissioned the report, has described this potential scenario as "absurd, unjust and unachievable". It is calling for a three per cent reduction in emissions every year in the UK across all sectors in order to ensure such a situation does not arise. Aviation emissions are currently a hot topic across the EU as environment commissioner Stavros Dimas announced yesterday it was "probable" that aviation emissions would be included in the EU's emissions trading scheme. Editor's Note: Not if the International Aviation Cabal and their running dogs (like the FAA) have anything to say about it. http://www.luchtzak.be/article8885.html 

Latest Teterboro Airport Crash Brings More Calls For Airport Closure: The flames were barely doused on the turboprop that crash-landed on a Teterboro runway last week before a shrill chorus of Teterboro haters began singing one of two familiar refrains: Close Teterboro, sang some. Reduce jet traffic there, sang the rest. It's easy to sympathize with these simple lyrics. The chorus has every right to be nervous. Although nobody on the ground was injured in Tuesday's crash, a man in a car was critically hurt on his way to work four months ago when a corporate jet skidded across Route 46. Who's next? Kids in the technical school across the highway? But close the leading area airport for short-distance flights? Or reduce short flights by as much as 25 percent? Even the politicians proposing a 25-percent reduction aren't sure which other airport would accept the 135 daily takeoffs and landings diverted from Teterboro. A favorite for corporate jets, local pilots and celebrities, the tiny Bergen County strip takes the small-craft overflow from the region's three big airports, especially crowded La Guardia. http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyNjcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY3MDQwMjQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk5  http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_053105_planecrashPM.html 

Naples, Florida: FAA Loses Fight To Keep Noisy Planes Flying Over Community!!! NAPLES, Fla. Older, noisy jets can be banned from the skies over Naples to maintain quiet in the community, a federal appeals court said Friday. In its ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with the Naples Airport Authority and against the Federal Aviation Administration in a years long dispute. The banned aircraft, called "Stage 2" jets, were made in the 1970s and 1980s and are generally noisier than aircraft built since. The authority restricted them from using Naples Municipal Airport after receiving complaints from the community about their loudness. The FAA contended the ban unjustly discriminated against users of a particular type of aircraft. Editor's Note: Leave it to the corrupt FAA bureauRATS to fight for the right of noisy planes to fly over residential communities.  You can be sure the FAA  will fight this decision tooth and nail.  http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050603/APN/506031299 

Some incidents involving air traffic in and around Teterboro Airport:

Dec. 1, 2004: A Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV on landing at Teterboro runs off the runway and into a stand of trees. None of the nine occupants is injured. In a preliminary report, the National Transportation Safety Board says the crew reported that the plane experienced mechanical problems that prevented it from decelerating normally.

Dec. 16, 2003: A Canadair CL-600, the same model involved in Wednesday's crash, ends up in the mud at the end of a Teterboro runway after the pilot aborts the takeoff. There are no injuries in the incident, which the National Transportation Safety Board attributes to pilot error.

March 8, 2002: A small plane crashes and explodes in flames shortly after takeoff from Teterboro Airport, killing its pilot and just missing a stream of vehicles on Route 46.

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Important Aviation News Stories This Week

THURSDAY, June 2 (HealthDayNews) -- Exposure to high levels of airplane noise may be linked to delayed reading abilities and memory problems among youngsters, a new study finds.

While the effects of air pollution on children's health are well known, less is understood about the damage environmental noise could cause.

"We looked at the effects of air traffic and road traffic noise on children's health and cognitive development," explained lead researcher Stephen Stansfeld, a professor of psychiatry at St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Queen Mary and Westfield College at the University of London.

"We found an exposure effect association between chronic aircraft noise and impairment of reading comprehension and recognition memory," he said.

In their study, Stansfeld's group collected data on over 2,800 children, aged 9 to 10, from 89 primary schools located near three major airports. These included Schiphol near Amsterdam, Barajas near Madrid, and London's Heathrow. The researchers assessed aircraft and road traffic noise levels around the schools and then compared them with the results of cognitive tests and health questionnaires.

Their report appears in the June 4 issue of The Lancet.

The researchers found that exposure to aircraft noise was associated with lowered reading comprehension, even after adjustment for socioeconomic differences between high-noise and low-noise schools. Reading age in children exposed to high levels of airplane noise was delayed by up to two months in the United Kingdom and up to one month in the Netherlands.

However, road traffic noise did not affect reading and, unexpectedly, was associated with improved recall memory. Increased exposure to both airplane and road traffic noise was associated with increased stress and reduced quality of life, the researchers add.

Stansfeld speculated that airplane noise gets the children's attention, blocking out more useful noises that might be helpful in learning to read. "It may also have to do with interference in the communication between teachers and children," he said.

Airplane noise is also more disturbing than traffic noise, Stansfeld said. Traffic noise is a constant background, while airplane noise is a rapidly rising noise, which can be disturbing. "It could be the disturbance, as much as the noise itself, that's interfering with the children's reading."

Stansfeld believes new schools should not be built near airports. "For those schools that are exposed to aircraft noise, one should be thinking about whether they should be properly sound-insulated."

Stansfeld advised parents to not worry too much about the new findings. "Don't panic. It's quite a small effect," he said.

One expert views the findings as more evidence of the ever-increasing noise level plaguing modern life. "Noise is a ubiquitous hazard," said Dr. Peter M. Rabinowitz, an assistant professor of internal medicine from the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program at the Yale University School of Medicine.

"It's so ubiquitous that we tend to take it for granted," he said. "And yet we are starting to find out that there may be health effects that we had not suspected."

Rabinowitz, the author of an accompanying commentary, said this study highlights the need to take noise pollution seriously.

"This study builds the case that some of this noise that we are feeling there's nothing you can do about it, maybe we should be doing more about it. Health people should be more involved with the issue than they are now," he added.

More information

The National Library of Medicine can tell you more about noise pollution.