{"id":340345,"date":"2010-02-19T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f1e6067970c"},"modified":"2010-02-19T16:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:33:31","slug":"laxs-north-runways-are-safe-and-should-stay-as-they-are-nasa-panel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/340345","title":{"rendered":"LAX’s north runways are safe and should stay as they are, NASA panel says"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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A NASA panel says the north runways at Los Angeles International Airport are safe and should remain in their current configuration, according to a report released Friday.<\/p>\n

The panel said that while other proposals — including widening the distance between the two north runways — might make the airport runways safer, "the risk is so low, reducing that risk by a substantial percentage is of limited practical importance.\u201d <\/p>\n

A committee of academics working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration released a preliminary copy of the report Friday morning at the Flight Path Learning Center near LAX.<\/p>\n

Nearby residents had been concerned about the report, fearing it would persuade elected officials to push a runway and surrounding airport land into their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

Airport officials have been trying to determine whether a greater distance between those two runways would reduce the number of near-misses involving arriving and departing jets.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The academic committee was charged with looking at five options. One would involve doing nothing, while a second would push the northernmost runway 100 feet north into Westchester. A third would push the northernmost runway north by 340 feet. A fourth would result in the elimination of one of the two runways on the north side of LAX. A fifth would call on the airport to relocate one of its north runways 340 feet south \u2013 a move that would require the demolition of Terminals 1, 2 and 3 at the airport.<\/p>\n

— Jeff Gottlieb near LAX and David Zahniser at L.A. City Hall<\/p>\n

Photo: Los Angeles Times file<\/em><\/p>\n

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A NASA panel says the north runways at Los Angeles International Airport are safe and should remain in their current configuration, according to a report released Friday. The panel said that while other proposals — including widening the distance between the two north runways — might make the airport runways safer, "the risk is so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}