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| Re plans to expand Lydd airport (Green groups challenge Kent airport expansion, 12 April): while it is good to see the environmental issues being aired, one problem that is rarely mentioned is the fact that Lydd airport is adjacent to two nuclear reactors. We have been told that when the power station buildings were erected they were designed to sustain an impact from aircraft that might accidentally fly into them. But as I understand it, the aircraft they were talking about were light aircraft such as those that currently use the airport, not the much larger planes that are being proposed. | Re plans to expand Lydd airport (Green groups challenge Kent airport expansion, 12 April): while it is good to see the environmental issues being aired, one problem that is rarely mentioned is the fact that Lydd airport is adjacent to two nuclear reactors. We have been told that when the power station buildings were erected they were designed to sustain an impact from aircraft that might accidentally fly into them. But as I understand it, the aircraft they were talking about were light aircraft such as those that currently use the airport, not the much larger planes that are being proposed. |
| Have Eric Pickles et al taken leave of their senses? Quite apart from any accident, doesn't anyone involved in this proposal have any memory of planes being flown into buildings, not by accident but as an act of terrorism? I cannot understand why the question of national security in the event of a possible terrorist attack did not rule out this proposal from the very beginning. Gillian Hanna Dungeness, Kent | Have Eric Pickles et al taken leave of their senses? Quite apart from any accident, doesn't anyone involved in this proposal have any memory of planes being flown into buildings, not by accident but as an act of terrorism? I cannot understand why the question of national security in the event of a possible terrorist attack did not rule out this proposal from the very beginning. Gillian Hanna Dungeness, Kent |
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