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TALKING POINTS FOR THE FAA MEETING April 26, 2017
We are the Hackensack Condo/Co Op Advisory Board, created by the city of Hackensack to represent the 65 high rise and multi dwelling buildings, regarding issues of safety and quality of life.
• Over 15,000 families of men, women and children live in the most densely populated area of the city, Prospect Avenue. On a daily basis, we live with the noise, pollution, the smell of fumes, and most importantly, the danger of the hundreds of planes that fly over our neighborhood on a weekly basis.
• In addition to the danger to our high rise buildings, these planes fly over HUMC and five schools.
• Why must planes fly in during the middle of the night?
• The current flight path into Teterboro is perverse, it should be the last place for this volume of air traffic.
HIGHRISE INCIDENTS:
June 17,1970 –plane flies into hi rise in Verona, NJ “Claridge House”
Sept. 2005- plane flies into Cresskill home, killing two
Oct. 11,2006- plane flies into high rise Bellaire Building NYC- kills Cory Liddle
Oct 11, 2010 – plane flies into Strawberry warehouse in South Hackensack trying to land at Teterboro
Feb. 1, 2011- a plane with fuel problems successfully landed on eastbound Route 80 at 2:30 p.m.-fortunately no injuries (good example of why Route 17 is a safer route.)
• Allowing this flight path to continue is dangerous and the noise and pollution to our neighborhood is unacceptable. We live with the danger and noise pollution 24 hours a day- this simply cannot continue.
ADDITIONAL INFO FOR FAA MEETING:
82 HIGH RISES IN HACKENSACK
MAY 24, 1942 – TWO Army planes crashed over Queen Anne Road & Cherry Lane, Teaneck
SEPT. 5,1950 – A Beechcraft Bonanza crashed at the above intersection killing the pilot
DEC. 29, 1979- A small Cessna crashed into a Fairleigh Dickinson University parking lot, luckily missing any students
2016- a plane crashed in Bayside
A number of years ago, part of an airplane’s tail section fell onto Prospect Avenue
***DO WE REALLY HAVE TO WAIT FOR A REAL CALAMITY TO OCCUR BEFORE TRYING TO PREVENT ONE?***