A few other things. I live on the little white curve of a line above the flight path, right above the G in Governor Drive on the map. That's how close I was and I didn't make note of the plane when it passed directly overhead. Also, there is a plant nursery right on the other side of the 805 from Governor Drive. Apart from that, I think the area is uninhabited until you reach the tarmac at the base. Lastly, the canyon at the crash site is maybe 1000 feet wide with a train track running east-west through the middle of it and a north-south bridge over it less than 1/2 mile to the west. There just isn't anywhere else to go.
As Cameron pointed out yesterday, there have always been questions about the safety of the base with so many houses nearby, and lots of people figured something like this would happen sooner or later, so the question for the community is what happens now. Some folks would like to make it a commercial airport, but that's no safer and a lot noisier. Others want to shut the base down and sell the land to developers. It would be very valuable land, but it might take years to give the all-clear to actually allow people to live on it,. Given that it has been a military base for decades, who knows what's over there. I don't think there is significant unexploded ordinance, since it is an airbase, but someone would have to check it out and make sure. What happens ten years from now if some little kid finds a live bomb and gets blown up? No easy solutions to the problem. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are more details on Signonsandiego.com today. Check out this page and > accompanying text: > > http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20081209/images/crash.html > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:282428 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
