Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter #464........................................................................January 20, 2007 Past newsletters can be accessed at: http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm The PASSUR airport flight tracking system at many major U.S. airports http://www.passur.com/sites.htm (you must have Java installed to view it). If you want to get the newsletter sent to you every week, sign up to AviationWatch. Bill Mulcahy rockaway@prodigy.net
Quote of the Week: "John L. Mica misused his position in government to personally peddle the FAA's horrific Airspace Redesign." comment from Tormey III, Esq. of "Quiet Rockland" in a story this week on the FAA's Airspace Redesign Plan
New York Community Demands Answers On Airspace Redesign!!!
As
Bill Sees It (Editorial): Rockland
County, New York Blasts Aviation Cabal Stooge Rep. John Mica!!! As a New
Yorker I am happy to see that
some of my neighbors are not letting the Aviation Cabal (airlines, FAA and
corrupt
political stooges) destroy their quality of life and sleep without a
fight.
Unfortunately, while Rockland communities have the support of their local
politicians, "their" state governor (the infamous Eliot Spitzer) and
Senators Chuck
Schumer and Hillary Clinton are strangely quiet on this decibal
assault on health and sleep of their Rockland County constituents. As Schumer, in my opinion, is one of the main
architects of the Airspace Redesign scheme, I would think he would be in
Rockland County telling people about how their sacrifice will help share a
few
minutes of the delays at Newark Airport. Sleazy
New York Politicians Ignoring New York County's Plea For Help!!! Perhaps "Chuck" doesn't have
time as he has been very busy REDUCING helicoper noise over the Nassau and
Suffork Counties in New York!!! Hillary's Excuse For Ignoring Rockland County's
Plight!!! At least Hillary has an excuse for running away from her
constituents; she is running for president. No doubt she has
spend a lot of time running around
getting more funds as she
had to give back a lot of her illegally
donated campaign funds back to people who have been
convicted of fraud like Norman Hsu (pictured with Hillary on the right) Recently convicted Hsu, who some
believe to be a front man working for the
Chinese Communists, recently got a 3 year sentence. I hope the people of
Rockland County don't forget how they were sold out by their representatives
when election time comes around. Unfortunately, it won't be soon enough as these
slimy politicians still have years of selling out their constituents to their
corporate and union contributors ahead of
them. Newark Airport Close Call: More
Planes Mean More Near Collisions And Crashes!!! Something that is
almost never mentioned when the Aviation Cabal announces that they are going to
increase an airport's "capacity" is safety. There seems to be an
unusual amount of near-misses and airport accidents lately. If they continue
there will be no doubt that the FAA's constantly pushing the capacity envelope
is to blame. They are not called the "tombstone agency" for
nothing.
Angered
New Yorkers Serve Document Demand on Representative John Mica!!! In the
face of an apparent refusal by Representative John L. Mica (R.Fl., 7th Dist.) to
heed a prior demand that he step down from the House Transportation Committee
and Aviation Subcommittee, New York environmental group
"Quiet
Rockland", acting in solidarity with the strength of thousands of
petition-signatories, 300,000 Rockland County NY neighbors, and millions of
affected residents in four other Northeast states, today served Freedom Of
Information Act (FOIA) demands upon Mica at his six (6) Florida offices, as well
as mirrored FOIA demands on the USDOT and FAA. The FOIA's requisition all
documents implicating Mica, as well as his campaign donors and donations, in the
FAA's hotly-contested and litigated "NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign".
Said John J. Tormey III, Esq. of "Quiet Rockland": "Our
grassroots group has learned to keep its press releases short, as a 'thanks' to
the many journalists who have covered our plight to date. John L. Mica misused
his position in government to personally peddle the FAA's horrific Airspace
Redesign. 'Quiet Rockland' will further unearth why, and how. Mica, the
USDOT,
and the FAA can now elect to timely comply with the document demands, or else
not. They can come forward, or they can hide. 'Quiet Rockland' is ready to play
it either way. All our rights and remedies are reserved. The FOIA served on Mica
is not served on him as a Congressman, but instead served on him as an FAA alter
ego, as well as on his Florida district and campaign offices. Mica and the FAA
have acted in concert as one and the same harmful enterprise, to cram-down a
harmful flight-plan for commercial gain while oblivious to safety and
environmental imperatives. He waived any FOIA immunity he would otherwise have
as a Congressman". http://newsblaze.com/story/20080117071715tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
FAA:
Air Traffic Controller Made "Wrong Airport" Mistake At Newark Airport:
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — An air traffic controller mistakenly gave a passenger jet
the frequency for the wrong airport, an error that put that plane and another
landing at Newark Liberty International Airport much closer than they should
have been, authorities said Thursday. The Federal Aviation Administration is
investigating the near miss, which occurred at 2:10 p.m. Wednesday between a
Boeing 737 and an Embraer 145. The Boeing operated as Continental Flight 536
arriving from Phoenix and the Embraer was Continental Express Flight 2614
arriving from Halifax, Nova Scotia. According to FAA spokesman Jim Peters, an
air traffic controller at the New York Terminal Radar Approach center on Long
Island, which guides planes landing at New York area airports before turning
them over to airport towers, mistakenly gave the Continental Express crew the
frequency for the tower at nearby Teterboro Airport instead of the Newark
airport. As a result, the Newark tower was temporarily unable to contact the
crew as both planes approached Newark. They eventually were separated by 1 1/4
horizontal miles, or less than half the three-mile nose-to-tail requirement set
by the FAA for planes landing at the airport, Peters said. In addition, the
planes were 600 feet apart in altitude, much closer than the minimum required
vertical separation of 1,000 feet. Both planes landed safely and arrived at the
gate about 15 minutes apart, according to Continental. Ray Adams, vice president
of the air traffic controllers union at the Newark airport, rejected the FAA's
preliminary conclusion and attributed the incident to the FAA's procedures for
landings at Newark. "We're disputing the fact that the controller made
an error," Adams said. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5heRHx1ogaM1sMD9PrDvaI2-suNXwD8U81JV01
England: Lucky Escape For Heathrow Airport
Boeing 777 Plane
Passengers: THE engines of the British Airways plane which crash-landed
at Heathrow Airport failed to respond to commands for more power during the
final stage of its descent, air accident investigators have found. Senior First Officer John Coward, left, who
was at the controls at the time of the crash, and Captain Peter Burkill
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Important Aviation News Stories This Week
Angered New Yorkers Serve Document Demand on Representative John Mica:
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080117071715tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
In the face of an apparent refusal by Representative John L. Mica (R.Fl., 7th Dist.) to heed a prior demand that he step down from the House Transportation Committee and Aviation Subcommittee, New York environmental group "Quiet Rockland", acting in solidarity with the strength of thousands of petition-signatories, 300,000 Rockland County NY neighbors, and millions of affected residents in four other Northeast states, today served Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) demands upon Mica at his six (6) Florida offices, as well as mirrored FOIA demands on the USDOT and FAA. The FOIA's requisition all documents implicating Mica, as well as his campaign donors and donations, in the FAA's hotly-contested and litigated "NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign".
Said John J. Tormey III, Esq. of "Quiet Rockland": "Our grassroots group has learned to keep its press releases short, as a 'thanks' to the many journalists who have covered our plight to date. John L. Mica misused his position in government to personally peddle the FAA's horrific Airspace Redesign. 'Quiet Rockland' will further unearth why, and how. Mica, the USDOT, and the FAA can now elect to timely comply with the document demands, or else not. They can come forward, or they can hide. 'Quiet Rockland' is ready to play it either way. All our rights and remedies are reserved. The FOIA served on Mica is not served on him as a Congressman, but instead served on him as an FAA alter ego, as well as on his Florida district and campaign offices. Mica and the FAA have acted in concert as one and the same harmful enterprise, to cram-down a harmful flight-plan for commercial gain while oblivious to safety and environmental imperatives. He waived any FOIA immunity he would otherwise have as a Congressman".
judythpiazza@newsblaze.com