AFAP - “The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has found the private operator of the Essendon Airport largely ignored modern safety standards when it built a shopping centre close to the runway.”
Good work from the AFAP – this part - “ largely ignored modern safety standards” - got me thinking. The 'parapet wall', the one the Be200 collided with first, the one which 'deflected' the aircraft to the roof, rather than through a window. It cannot possibly have been 'cheap' to build, it ain't an elegant enhancement to what is a butt ugly building; so why does it exist?
The cynic could postulate that being well aware that a risk existed, due to close proximity, of an unwanted aircraft visit, spoiling the shopping 'experience' - the structure was designed and built as an outer protection against just such an event. Were the developers actually fully aware that there was a possibility? If so, then do intent and malice aforethought get a hand in the game?
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Toot - just saying – toot..
Good work from the AFAP – this part - “ largely ignored modern safety standards” - got me thinking. The 'parapet wall', the one the Be200 collided with first, the one which 'deflected' the aircraft to the roof, rather than through a window. It cannot possibly have been 'cheap' to build, it ain't an elegant enhancement to what is a butt ugly building; so why does it exist?
The cynic could postulate that being well aware that a risk existed, due to close proximity, of an unwanted aircraft visit, spoiling the shopping 'experience' - the structure was designed and built as an outer protection against just such an event. Were the developers actually fully aware that there was a possibility? If so, then do intent and malice aforethought get a hand in the game?
Toot - just saying – toot..