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Australian Federation of Air Pilots (AFAP)
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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.

While investigating the crash [of a Beechcraft King Air into the DFO shopping centre on 21 Feb 2017] the ATSB discovered the #DFO was within 150m of the southern runway, in an apparent breach of safety standards in place since 1987, which mandated a 300m “stripwidth” on such a runway, or a 150m buffer zone on each side.

"… the ATSB said it could find no evidence the Civil Aviation Safety Authority had given the airport a concession to use that 180-metre clearance zone" … [and] "could not confirm how the airport determined the development was compliant with the rules."

“… the ATSB report largely agreed with the federation’s concerns that the airport largely ignored regulations intended to protect aviation activity and safety … pilots were increasingly concerned about overdevelopment at airports nationwide.”

A comment in reply:

Adrian Young
2h

Certainly not the first airport where the strip has been infringed upon. It must also be remembered that at the edge of the strip an imaginary slope starts (transitional slope) through which objects should not penetrate. The shopping centre penetrated both the strip and the transitional.
Clear safeguarding rules and their consistent implementation are key here.

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