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Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter 
#464........................................................................January 
20,  2007 Past newsletters can be accessed at: 
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Quote of the Week:  "John L. Mica misused his position in government to 
personally peddle the FAA's horrific Airspace Redesign." comment from Tormey 
III, Esq. of "Quiet Rockland"  in a story this week on the FAA's Airspace 
Redesign Plan

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New York Community Demands Answers On Airspace Redesign!!!

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As Bill Sees It (Editorial): Rockland County, New York Blasts Aviation Cabal 
Stooge Rep. John Mica!!! As a New Yorker I am happy to see that some of my 
neighbors are not letting the Aviation Cabal (airlines, FAA and corrupt 
political stooges) destroy their quality of life and sleep without a fight. 
Unfortunately, while Rockland communities have the support of their local 
politicians, "their" state governor (the infamous Eliot Spitzer) and 
Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton are strangely quiet on this 
decibal assault on health and sleep of their Rockland County constituents. 
As Schumer, in my opinion, is one of the main architects of the Airspace 
Redesign scheme, I would think he would be in Rockland County telling people 
about how their sacrifice will help share a few minutes of the delays at 
Newark Airport. Sleazy New York Politicians Ignoring New York County's Plea 
For Help!!!  Perhaps "Chuck" doesn't have time as he has been very busy 
REDUCING helicoper noise over the Nassau and Suffork Counties in New York!!!

Hillary's Excuse For Ignoring Rockland County's Plight!!!  At least Hillary 
has an excuse for running away from her constituents; she is running for 
president. No doubt  she has spend a lot of time running around getting more 
funds as she had to give back a lot of her illegally donated campaign funds 
back to people who have been convicted of fraud like Norman Hsu (pictured 
with Hillary on the right) Recently convicted Hsu,  who some believe to be a 
front man working for the Chinese Communists, recently got a 3 year 
sentence. I hope the people of Rockland County don't forget how they were 
sold out by their representatives when election time comes around. 
Unfortunately, it won't be soon enough as these slimy politicians still have 
years of selling out their constituents to their corporate and union 
contributors ahead of them.

Newark Airport Close Call, More Planes Mean More Near Collisions And 
Crashes!!! Something that is almost never mentioned when the Aviation Cabal 
announces that they are going to increase an airport's "capacity" is safety. 
There seems to be an unusual amount of near-misses and airport accidents 
lately. If they continue there will be no doubt that the FAA's constantly 
pushing the capacity envelope is to blame.  They are not called the 
"tombstone agency" for nothing.

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Angered New Yorkers Serve Document Demand on Representative John Mica!!! In 
the face of an apparent refusal by Representative John L. Mica (R.Fl., 7th 
Dist.) to heed a prior demand that he step down from the House 
Transportation Committee and Aviation Subcommittee, New York environmental 
group "Quiet Rockland", acting in solidarity with the strength of thousands 
of petition-signatories, 300,000 Rockland County NY neighbors, and millions 
of affected residents in four other Northeast states, today served Freedom 
Of Information Act (FOIA) demands upon Mica at his six (6) Florida offices, 
as well as mirrored FOIA demands on the USDOT and FAA. The FOIA's 
requisition all documents implicating Mica, as well as his campaign donors 
and donations, in the FAA's hotly-contested and litigated "NY/NJ/PHL 
Airspace Redesign". Said John J. Tormey III, Esq. of "Quiet Rockland": "Our 
grassroots group has learned to keep its press releases short, as a 'thanks' 
to the many journalists who have covered our plight to date. John L. Mica 
misused his position in government to personally peddle the FAA's horrific 
Airspace Redesign. 'Quiet Rockland' will further unearth why, and how. Mica, 
the USDOT, and the FAA can now elect to timely comply with the document 
demands, or else not. They can come forward, or they can hide. 'Quiet 
Rockland' is ready to play it either way. All our rights and remedies are 
reserved. The FOIA served on Mica is not served on him as a Congressman, but 
instead served on him as an FAA alter ego, as well as on his Florida 
district and campaign offices. Mica and the FAA have acted in concert as one 
and the same harmful enterprise, to cram-down a harmful flight-plan for 
commercial gain while oblivious to safety and environmental imperatives. He 
waived any FOIA immunity he would otherwise have as a Congressman". 
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080117071715tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html

FAA: Air Traffic Controller Made "Wrong Airport" Mistake At Newark Airport: 
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - An air traffic controller mistakenly gave a passenger 
jet the frequency for the wrong airport, an error that put that plane and 
another landing at Newark Liberty International Airport much closer than 
they should have been, authorities said Thursday. The Federal Aviation 
Administration is investigating the near miss, which occurred at 2:10 p.m. 
Wednesday between a Boeing 737 and an Embraer 145. The Boeing operated as 
Continental Flight 536 arriving from Phoenix and the Embraer was Continental 
Express Flight 2614 arriving from Halifax, Nova Scotia. According to FAA 
spokesman Jim Peters, an air traffic controller at the New York Terminal 
Radar Approach center on Long Island, which guides planes landing at New 
York area airports before turning them over to airport towers, mistakenly 
gave the Continental Express crew the frequency for the tower at nearby 
Teterboro Airport instead of the Newark airport. As a result, the Newark 
tower was temporarily unable to contact the crew as both planes approached 
Newark. They eventually were separated by 1 1/4 horizontal miles, or less 
than half the three-mile nose-to-tail requirement set by the FAA for planes 
landing at the airport, Peters said. In addition, the planes were 600 feet 
apart in altitude, much closer than the minimum required vertical separation 
of 1,000 feet. Both planes landed safely and arrived at the gate about 15 
minutes apart, according to Continental. Ray Adams, vice president of the 
air traffic controllers union at the Newark airport, rejected the FAA's 
preliminary conclusion and attributed the incident to the FAA's procedures 
for landings at Newark. "We're disputing the fact that the controller made 
an error," Adams said. 
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5heRHx1ogaM1sMD9PrDvaI2-suNXwD8U81JV01



England: Lucky Escape For Heathrow Airport Boeing 777 Plane Passengers: THE 
engines of the British Airways plane which crash-landed at Heathrow Airport 
failed to respond to commands for more power during the final stage of its 
descent, air accident investigators have found. Senior First Officer John 
Coward, left, who was at the controls at the time of the crash, and Captain 
Peter Burkill The catastrophic systems failure occurred when the Boeing 777 
was 600ft above ground and two miles from the runway. Three attempts to 
increase thrust, first by the autopilot, which was controlling the aircraft, 
and then by the flight crew using the throttle levers, produced no response 
from the Rolls-Royce engines. The initial air accident report, released 
yesterday, stated: "The aircraft then descended rapidly and struck the 
ground, some 1,000ft short of the paved runway surface, just inside the 
airfield boundary fence." It stated that the investigation was now focused 
on more detailed analysis of information from the aircraft's flight 
recorder, collecting other recorded information from the plane and 
"examining the range of aircraft systems that could influence engine 
operation". 
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Engines-of-Heathrow-crash-.3690333.jp



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                                                    Important Aviation News 
Stories This Week

Angered New Yorkers Serve Document Demand on Representative John Mica:

http://newsblaze.com/story/20080117071715tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html

In the face of an apparent refusal by Representative John L. Mica (R.Fl., 
7th Dist.) to heed a prior demand that he step down from the House 
Transportation Committee and Aviation Subcommittee, New York environmental 
group "Quiet Rockland", acting in solidarity with the strength of thousands 
of petition-signatories, 300,000 Rockland County NY neighbors, and millions 
of affected residents in four other Northeast states, today served Freedom 
Of Information Act (FOIA) demands upon Mica at his six (6) Florida offices, 
as well as mirrored FOIA demands on the USDOT and FAA. The FOIA's 
requisition all documents implicating Mica, as well as his campaign donors 
and donations, in the FAA's hotly-contested and litigated "NY/NJ/PHL 
Airspace Redesign".

Said John J. Tormey III, Esq. of "Quiet Rockland": "Our grassroots group has 
learned to keep its press releases short, as a 'thanks' to the many 
journalists who have covered our plight to date. John L. Mica misused his 
position in government to personally peddle the FAA's horrific Airspace 
Redesign. 'Quiet Rockland' will further unearth why, and how. Mica, the 
USDOT, and the FAA can now elect to timely comply with the document demands, 
or else not. They can come forward, or they can hide. 'Quiet Rockland' is 
ready to play it either way. All our rights and remedies are reserved. The 
FOIA served on Mica is not served on him as a Congressman, but instead 
served on him as an FAA alter ego, as well as on his Florida district and 
campaign offices. Mica and the FAA have acted in concert as one and the same 
harmful enterprise, to cram-down a harmful flight-plan for commercial gain 
while oblivious to safety and environmental imperatives. He waived any FOIA 
immunity he would otherwise have as a Congressman".

judythpiazza@newsblaze.com
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