UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, officials say

Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o... by Moto7451 on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @10:11AM (#45823679)

Jets are also simply too loud for homes under the takeoff path in standard use. There’s what amounts to a ghost town next to LAX due to this and the history of the airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisades_del_Rey,_California

Burbank Airport has quiet hours and has left a bunch of commercially zoned area under that takeoff path.

I’m in Atlanta now and they bought up a lot of land around the airport when redeveloping it and do similar zoning tricks for the buffer. One of the buffer zones is the Porsche Experience. It’s loud as heck when you’re on the part of the track closest but not bad where the corporate HQ and paddock is

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Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o... by duped on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:48PM (#45826371)

Meanwhile, ORD is surrounded by residential areas and they're building a new tollway perpendicular to the runways

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Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o... by caseyohara on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @06:59PM (#45829736)

MDW immediately came to mind as an airport closely surrounded by neighborhoods. I've always wondered what it's like to live in one of those neighborhoods. Is it a perpetual nuisance or do you get used to it?

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Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o... by tharkun__ on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @07:03PM (#45829760)

Not at MDW but there are plenty such places and yes, some people do "get used to it". But there are studies that show that you increase health risks from such levels of noise even if you get used enough to it so that you can sleep through them. Search for increases in problems of cardiovascular health from car and plane noise.

And some people just won't really get used to it. I've lived near airplane noise and I never got used to it. I also don't sleep better with white noise. I sleep worse.

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Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o... by mindcrime on Thursday November 06, 2025 @11:29AM (#45836978)

First time I was ever on a flight that landed at Midway, I was pretty freaked out by the visuals as we were descending. It's like ... "we're going to land on a house... we're going to Land On A House... we're going to LAND ON A HOUSE!! ... OMG, there's a runway <phew>".

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Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o... by fortran77 on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @02:20PM (#45826737)

I grew up 3 miles (as the crow flies) from JFK Runway 31 R / 13 L in Cedarhurst, New York

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Cedarhurst,+NY+11516/John+F....

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Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o... by tharkun__ on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @05:03PM (#45828707)

I just looked that up (Atlanta) on https://noise-map.com/ and man, that's way not enough zoning tricking in my book. Not that it's much different in other cities (or countries).

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Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o... by alright2565 on Thursday November 06, 2025 @06:30PM (#45841839)

There's no need to zone for airport noise in Atlanta because the highway passing through the city center and hotrodded cars already are much louder and more disruptive in practice. I wish I was joking.

Also, the map you're looking at there is relatively low resolution. I would suggest looking at it in https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/NationalTransportationNoiseMap/; make sure to switch the "Modes:" to "All Modes"

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Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o... by jcurbo on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @08:21PM (#45830304)

That's wild, I was in LA recently for work and drove by that area and wondered what was up with the street grid. I figured it must be something like this given the airport.

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Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o... by themadturk on Friday November 07, 2025 @01:20PM (#45849256)

I recently toured SEA. The third (western-most) runway there is too close to homes to use regularly for takeoffs due to noise. Though the FAA has made the Port of Seattle no promises, they apparently do tend to use the third runway as much as possible for landings only, and not late at night as much as possible.

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