"The pilot who flew that plane" on Garbage near Airports

"One of the things we've learned is that one of the few ways to mitigate the bird problem is to not put anything near an airport runway that's likely to attract birds"

Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger discussing the plan to build a garbage transfer station less than a half-mile from LaGuardia Airport.

For the full story and video go over to the un-embeddable cbsnews.com.

Header image: Tom Fisk (via Pexels)

Dan Parsons

Dan is an airport operations manager currently working at Queenstown Airport in beautiful New Zealand. His previous roles have included airport and non-process infrastructure operation manager in the mining industry, government inspector with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and airport trainer. Dan’s special interests include risk management, leadership and process hacks to make running airports easier. 

http://therunwaycentreline.com
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