Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard

Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by snickerbockers on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:10PM (#44259369)

that's actually not true and it's very easy to disprove because SFO is in the top 20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_i....

I'm sure this is an airport most of the people on this site are familiar with but just in case you aren't, it's on reclaimed land in the San Francisco bay.

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by placardloop on Thursday June 12, 2025 @01:01PM (#44260018)

There’s a massive, incredibly dense neighborhood of houses and offices less than 1000 feet to the south, west, and north of every one of SFOs runways.

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by Ar-Curunir on Thursday June 12, 2025 @01:37PM (#44260427)

SFO is surrounded by numerous highways, office buildings, and residential areas

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by snickerbockers on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:15PM (#44261944)

well yeah but im talking about the part where the planes land not the terminal.

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by dghlsakjg on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:59AM (#44269136)

There runway thresholds are closer to the neighborhoods than the entire terminal except a few A terminal gates.

Go look at a satellite view of SFO.

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by dghlsakjg on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:28PM (#44261148)

It is 400m from the threshold of 19L/1R to the nearest residential neighborhood at SFO. LGA, which is an incredibly urban airport has the exact same distance from the end of its closest runway to the nearest residential area.

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