Airport

Definition and stakes

Ward Moore,  Greener Than You Think

“ I walked with the chief dispatcher into the airport waitingroom, dull with the listless air, not of unoccupancy, but disuse.
"Not much air travel," I remarked idly.
"Yours is the first plane in a month."
"I wonder you bother to keep the airport open at all."
"We do what we can to preserve the forms of civilization. The substance, unfortunately, cannot be affected by transportation, production, distribution, education or any other such niceties."
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Source: Gutenberg

National Transportation Safety Board,  Korean Air Flight 801 investigation…

“ The -- also, we want to surround the airport with a terrain clearance floor. The bottom of this bow is the airport, and we store in terms of information the ends of the runway, and then we slowly build a floor up that progressively grows with distance from the runway to try to protect against landing short. As the previous speaker said, half of our losses are on the non-precision approach. ”
Source: Wikisource

Portal:Civil Aeronautics Board,  Aviation Accident Report: American Airlines Flight 383 (1966)

“ At night under poor visibility conditions it is quite conceivable that the elevation of the lights in the river valley could be associated with the elevation of the terrain in the vicinity of the airport.
It should be remembered that at all times after turning onto the base leg, and throughout the descent, the airport remained well to the left side of the aircraft. In order to keep the airport in sight all observations by the pilots would have been to the left of the aircraft through the left side cockpit windshield or left side window.
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Source: Wikisource

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