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Flightplan Brings Down The House


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What: Ryanair Boeing 737-800 en route from Milan Italy to Hamburg Germany
Where: Luebeck
When: Nov 12th 2009
Why: The low-flying Boeing was apparently flying low when vibrations from the plane rattled the tile roof and collapsed the chimney.

George’s Point of View

If this were in the U.S., the airport would do its best to (as quietly as possible) purchase the house. I’m assuming this is one of those properties in the immediate neighborhood of the “offending” airport. So much of what happens depends on whether or not the homeowner wants to move, if the property predates the airport, local laws and agreements already in place. Will there be a lawsuit, or an amicable meeting over a common negotiating table? Depends on the lawyer. Who knows? It may be the airport who sits across the table from the homeowner—or it may be a local contractor whose work is less than stellar.

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