[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Fairchild Air Force Base (WA) crash zone

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Homes' future up in the air
Airway Heights likes growth, but won't risk losing Fairchild

Mike Prager
Spokane Spokesman-Review (WA)
March 13, 2012

From the deck of her manufactured home in Airway Heights, Sharron  
Patton looks up to see big military jets gliding down to Fairchild  
Air Force Base about two miles away.

This is the crash zone, but the noise and risk don’t bother her. "I  
find it comforting," she said of the military might the planes  
represent.

Patton and hundreds of her neighbors are living in what the Air Force  
calls "accident potential zone 2," a place the Air Force would prefer  
had a lower concentration of people for safety reasons.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/mar/13/homes-future-up-in-the-air/

--

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org