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jonathanrdt t1_iy89mtd wrote

Reply to comment by Due-Ad-7308 in Before a small plane crashed into power lines and tower in Maryland, an air traffic controller warned pilot his altitude reading was too low | CNN by kishiki18_91

I like the closing quote:

> Smouse said the incident was “pretty scary” and his house is located in an area where planes and jets often pass through.

> “I think about it a lot, where they come in, and, literally, they are like 200 or 300 feet over us,” he said.

Powerful insight: planes in the air overhead.

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quesupo t1_iy8eph2 wrote

And the airport outdates the vast majority of people who live there. They built suburban sprawl all around it. It’s not some big surprise that there are airplanes at the airport.

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