"Bill Mulcahy" wrote:

General Aviation To Be Permanently Restricted From Washington, DC? While of
course I am for ANY restriction on aviation...anywhere, I find it suspicious
that the FAA wants to ban small general aviation aircraft coming even miles
from Washington, DC while allowing the nearby "Reagan" National Airport to
operate less than a mile from the Pentagon and about two miles from the
National Mall, the White House and the Capitol Building!!! Why not close
Reagan National permanently? It was done for months after 9/11.

3 weeks, in a time of vastly reduced air traffic.

The reason,
as everyone knows, is because Reagan National Airport is used by congressmen
and senators as their own private airport; so they are not about to close it.

Oh please, spare us the demagoguery. Congress is 535 people. National
Airport handles over 50,000 airline passengers per day, and closing it
would transform the D.C. region into one of the worst-served regions in
the country as far as airline service.

The danger from this airport is not only from terrorists but could come
from just an ordinary airplane accident. On January 12, 1981 a plane with 79
took off in a snowstorm (nice going boys) and crashed in the Potomac River,
killing 74.

The only fatalities were from those on the plane. How is that "danger"
any different from many other regional airports? Only one jet crash at
National... some U.S. airports have had several jet crashes.