[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Safety buffers at southern Virginia air bases

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Following Virginia Beach crash, encroachment remains an issue
Jet crash highlights need for safety buffers

By Robert Brauchle
Newport News Daily Press (VA)
April 9, 2012

Peninsula officials believe state and federal dollars should be  
earmarked to help increase safety buffers around local military air  
stations.

Their response comes after a F/A-18 Hornet with the VFA (Strike  
Fighter Squadron) 106 crashed shortly after noon Friday in Virginia  
Beach. The accident injured at least six people, including the two  
pilots who were able to eject from the jet before it crashed.

The jet went down northeast of Naval Air Station Oceana, in the  
courtyard of the Mayfair Mews apartment complex along Birdneck Road.  
The accident displaced at least 60 people, authorities have said.

Localities across the region have lobbied in recent years for state  
and federal funding to increase the size of safety buffers abutting  
the runways at Oceana and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/military/exclusive/dp-nws-virginia- 
beach-jet-encroachment-20120408,0,400994.story

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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>
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