FAA Grants AOPA Demand for Investigation into Meigs Closure

AOPA Online ^ | Feb 11, 2004 | AOPA

[AntiKev]

Well, at least it's a setp in the right direction. I would really like to see Meigs re-opened though. I really don't think this can be counted as a victory for General Aviation, but it isn't a defeat either.

[AntiKev]

Ping.

[snopercod]

Destroying a public airport in the middle of the night meets the definition of terrorism.

[Starrgaizr]

I would have liked to strap Da Mare to the gear on a C-182 and land on what was left of the runway with those chewed up X's last year. "Oops, sorry, on my sectional there was an airport here, and no NOTAM said otherwise."

At least I got CGX recorded in my logbook before he demolished it.

[Bogey78O]

Oh no! Daley's gonna get punished. His wrist must be burning already.

[AntiKev]

That'd be a sight to see. "Cessna 182, go around, there is a body on your landing gear." "Negative tower, he's supposed to be there."

[IronJack]

The City of Chicago didn't shut down Meigs Field. Mayor Richard Daley shut down Meigs Field.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

For those of us who don't know, what is AOPA?

[American_Centurion]

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.

[AntiKev]

I never said it was the city. Daley deserves to be taped to the propeller of a light twin for a few circuits...see how he feels then.

[OPS4]

http://www.suntimes.com/special_sections/clout/index1.html

Here is the big scandal Daley will not survive.
Ops4 God BLess America!

[jonascord]

Little Dickie IS the Baron of Chicago. Anyone who says different is working for him.

[T'wit]

I flew in and out of Meigs once on a Cessna 182 (at least I'm pretty sure that's what it was). I had great faith in the pilot, but pretty nearly needed a liver transplant by the time we got off the ground :-)

[Fixit]

Coverage of the closure when it happened, including pictures of the destruction in progress.

http://www.aero-news.net/news/featurestories.cfm?ContentBlockID=36dcc41b-a0e6-466e-8e0e-63db97ee5aa3&Dynamic=1

[bootless]

GOOD!

[Aeronaut]

Ping to the G.A. list.

General Aviation Ping list. FReep mail me if you want on or off this list.

[concentric circles]

Undamaged, as close to a carrier landing as most civilians could ever get.

Dozer damaged. May the little tyrant be thrown out before he has a chance to retire.

[XHogPilot]

What's the rest of the story? aka "Follow the money..."

[Criminal Number 18F]

I would really like to see Meigs re-opened though.

Ain't gonna happen. Various mobbed-up contractors and developers can make altogether too much money building the nation's most expensive park -- and funnel his percentage back to the Daley crime family. In the end, no interests couldn't outbid their normal, criminal interests.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[ought-six]

"Here is the big scandal Daley will not survive."

Oh, please. Daley is not going to suffer from this at all. Granted, the guy is a semi-literate, corrupt despot, but his tentacles spread so far, and hold so many so tightly, including many in law enforcement and the courts, that he is virtually immune from ANYTHING. The only thing that can stop Daley is Daley, and don't hold your breath on that EVER happening. His power is absolute in Chicago, and is becoming so in the entire state of Illinois (except for a few western and southern counties that are virtually uninhabited).