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Wednesday night, recently installed barriers helped avert a disaster at Teterboro Airport. WABC 7 Eyewitness News reports that a ten ton jet missed a turn while taxiing after landing and "was headed toward the airport fence and busy Route 46." Luckily, it hit an "arrestor bed," which is a "system of collapsible concrete barriers that can stop a plane" yet not damage it. Brilliant! But what's extra lucky: The arrestors were only installed a few days ago.
Back in February 2005, a plane somehow skidded from the runway, crossed Route 46, and crashed into a warehouse, causing a three-alarm fire. We recall some talk about putting up some sort of barriers in the wake of that accident back then. Here's more information about the 2005 crash - can you imagine being the commuter driving along and seeing a plane come towards you?
Teterboro Airport is 12 miles away from NYC and used to be a World War I airplane manufacturing facility.
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there are many, many other averted catastrophes which we don't hear about at teterboro...
this airport is being used beyond its capability. the aircraft are too large and there is far too much traffic moving through this (once small) airfield...an airfield which is too close to highways, businesses and schools.
Exactly rj, Teterboro is a death trap. Avoid at all costs (unless you like 'oh god we're all going to die' moments).
Rich people and their feeling of entitlement to do whatever they want, when they want.
They really need to either close Teterboro or turn it into an airport for little Cessnas and helicopters. It is going to take some rich assholes G4 taking out some houses to close the damn thing.