Los Angeles radio tower crash kills 2

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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Even if the tower "coexisted with the airport since 1947" (as someone
said) it is a classic "accident waiting to happen."

What if it's decided they cannot coexist? Do you think the airport will
have more local support than the radio station?

Speaking as a neighbor of a truly annoying AM radio station, I think the
answer to that question could go either way. If the neighbors have as much
trouble with signal bleed as we do here, they likely would be overjoyed to
see the radio transmitter located elsewhere.

I'm not any more convinced of the "accident waiting to happen" claim than
you are -- after all, there have been fewer accidents due to the tower than
one might expect at a runway. And we don't go around calling runways "an
accident waiting to happen". Given the virtually nonexistent number of
accidents related to the tower, it's clearly NOT an "accident waiting to
happen".

But implying that a radio station would be more popular with neighbors than
an airport indicates a misunderstanding of the impact a radio station has on
neighbors.

Pete