From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 20:09:55 PDT
--- DCrespy@aol.com wrote:
> Not too far off topic, I hope. From the AVweb web
> site. (Wonder if they
> have any R-390/390A meters?)
>
> Harry KG5LO
> Saline MI
>
> Hazardous Instruments Keep Pilots From Planes
>
> At least 12 aircraft owners at Chino Airport in
> California have been unable
> to get to their airplanes for more than a month
> because of their neighbor's
> hobby of collecting luminescent dialed instruments.
> San Bernardino County
> officials say there are enough old airplane
> instruments painted with radium-226
> inside two hangars occupied by Preservation Aviation
> Inc. to create a radiation
> hazard. Since March 10, authorities have barred
> access to neighboring
> hangars. Airport manager James Jenkins told the
> Daily Bulletin that the neighboring
> aircraft are not contaminated but the area around
> them is off-limits. The
> county estimates it will cost more than $200,000 to
> collect all the instruments
> and dispose of them safely. Because the county owns
> one of the hangars and
> the land under the other, it will undertake the
> cleanup but will be looking to
> get the money back from Preservation Aviation owner
> Jeff Pearson, who wasn't
> available to comment. This is the second time the
> company has been at the
> center of a radiation scare. The Chino
> investigation stemmed from the
> Environmental Protection Agency's 2004 probe of a
> North Hollywood warehouse in which
> Preservation Aviation stored thousands of
> radium-containing instruments.
> Radiation levels in that warehouse were 100 times
> greater than normal. The Los
> Angeles Daily News reported at the time that the
> cost of that cleanup was $7
> million.
>
>
>
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