Crash-Prone Airport Target of Protesters
Demonstrators angered by a Dec. 5 light-plane crash that killed three people staged weekend marches at busy Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose, carrying signs reading “No more plane crashes!”
About 30 people took part in two days of protests, which drew honks and gestures of support from some passing motorists, while others jeered.
Protesters say they hope to close the general-aviation facility, the site of numerous air crashes over the years. Built during the 1940s on a large expanse of open land, the airport is now surrounded on three sides by crowded residential neighborhoods.
Veteran pilot Bob Michoff blamed development for creating the problem and suggested it might be too costly to the county to move the airport.
“It might be less expensive to move the people” instead, he said.
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