Airports

There have been over 1500 airplane crashes in the United States during the year 2004. Accidents and near misses are apparently reported ‘VOLUNTARILY’ to the Transportation Safety Board – so – who is watching the skies? It’s hard to say.
Airplanes are left unguarded in thousands of airports in the United States for hours, days and even weeks at a time – until a pilot – who may or may not be so familiar with his airplane that he could easily tell if someone had been tampering with it. For example – as an automobile owner you would be able to tell if someone had opened your car without a key – or gained accessed to the engine through the hood – an airplane owner cannot do that.
Most of the airports in the United States have no security systems whatsoever. Many have only a chain link fence or some signs telling you to keep out. Just recently the hangar at freight airport - Willow Run Airport in Michigan – burned to the ground. Who did it? Who knows?
In any case – if you are feeling safe these days just because you don’t fly in an airplane, I need to bring it to your attention that the Bush Administration has not done anything to guarantee that you won’t be killed by one anyway.
George W. Bush said one thing following September 11. He said we should not let the terrorists change the way we live – unfortunately, he has made it just that much easier for them to change the way we can die.
Here is an example of how seriously 'officials' are taking this threat : "We see car accidents with worse injuries coming in here every week," said Dr. Charles Zeman, director of trauma services at Northeast Regional Medical Center referring to plane crash victims brought to him for care.
The following is an incomplete list of airplane crashes for 2004. We have been averaging over 2100 a year. There is no clear way to get all of the data together because different government data systems report different numbers of accidents. It is clear, however, that there are many problems and with a guy like Bush in office, you can bet they won’t be solved any time soon.
Jan. 1, 2004, plane crashed at the Illinois Valley Airport, in Cave Junction, Ore
Dallas – January 1, 2004, plane crashes shortly after takeoff.
Plane crash Jan. 15, 2004, in Kingsville, Ontario, Canada
Plane crash Jan. 19, 2004, in the Sierra foothills near Grass Valley, Calif
Just off Port of Los Angeles a small plane crashed into the ocean, Jan. 31, 2004
Plane crash in Spencer, Mass., Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2004.
Plane crash Friday Feb. 27, 2004 which took place Thursday in Wayne
Township, about 30 miles southeast of Erie, Pa
Plane crash March 17, 2004, near DeLand, Fla.
Plane crash in the mountains near Harlan, Ky, March 21
Pittsfield, Mass., plane crash March 25, 2004
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
TOLEDO, Ohio Two planes from the same charter company crashed in separate accidents.
Plane crashed April 12, 2004, in North Augusta, S.C.
Plane crash April 18, 2004. at the Elser airport about 7 miles southwest of Youngstown, PA
Plane crash on the Big Island in Honomolino, Hawaii, Sunday, April 18, 2004.
Cary, N.C., Tuesday, May 4, 2004, a plane crashed
Plane crashed near Lake Massapoag in Sharon, Mass., Friday, May 7, 2004.
Plane crashed in Carson City, Nev., Thursday, May, 13, 2004
Plane crash, Friday May 14, 2004 in Ferndale, Md
Plane crash Friday, May 14, 2004, in Ferndale, Md.
Plane that crashed early Saturday, May 15, 2004, in Willoughby, Ohio.
Plane crashed Morrisville, N.C., Monday, May 17, 2004.
Plane crashed May 28, 2004, in Homer Glen, Ill.
Plane crash Tuesday, June 1, 2004, in Leominster, Mass
Owatonna, Minn., June 2, 2004, lane crashed into a home
Plane crashed June 23, 2004, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
Plane crashed in a field in Wallingford, Conn., Wednesday June,30, 2004.
Jaffrey, N.H., plane crash on July 7, 2004
July 8, 2004, plane crash near Waubun, Minn.
Plane crash near the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport Monday, July 18, 2004, near Wheeling, W.Va
July 24, 2004, in Fort Collins, Colo. a plane crashed
New Garden Township, Pa., lane crashed into an airport hangar at the airport and burst into flames Sunday, July 25, 2004
July 27, 2004, in West Whiteland, Pa., plane crashes in town.
Fox Lake, Ill., a private plane crashed Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Plane crashed in the Tennessee River Sunday afternoon, Aug. 1, 2004, near Waterloo, Ala.
Plane crashed in Lakeway, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2004.
Plane crashed near Webster, Wis., Aug. 12, 2004
Plane crashed Aug. 13, 2004, near the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, in Florence, Ky.
Plane crash on State Highway 32 in Anderson, Ind, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2004.
Plane crash in Jenks, Okla., Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2004
Plane crash Saturday morning, Sept. 4, 2004, in Corsicana, Texas
Sept. 20, 2004, Whitefish, Montana plane crash in the Great Bear Wilderness
Plane crashed Sept. 25, 2004, in Fullerton, Calif.
Plane crashed into a field between Interstate 75 and Ohio 741, across from the Dayton Wright Brothers Airport in Miamisburg, Ohio, Sept. 26, 2004.
Plane crash in Avondale, Pa., on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2004.
Oct. 1, 2004, a private plane crashed in the backyard of a home near the Burlington, Wis. Airport
Plane crash Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004, near Beatrice, Neb.
Madison, Connecticut, plane crashes into home – October 10, 2004.
Plane crash in Jefferson City, Mo., late Thursday night, Oct. 14, 2004.
Cargo 747 inbound from Africa crashes and explodes – October 15, 2004
Plane crash in Jefferson City, Mo., is shown Friday, Oct. 15, 2004
Plane crash Sunday evening, Oct. 17, 2004, in Altoona, Wis
A plane crashed yesterday in Atlanta and burned, October 19, 2004.
Plane that crashed Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004, in the woods just south of Kirksville, Mo.