From: Dick (rertman@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu May 05 2005 - 10:01:39 PDT
I'm not even gonna comment on this one!!!
Dick
> For my aviation buddies....
>
> Now I REALLY feel SAFE!
>
> 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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