The leaders of Clear Skies Over Modiin met at the end of last week with Giora Rom who heads the Civil Aviation Authority. In this meeting there was a fruitful dialogue of a positive nature, however, the meeting demonstrated that there were no results yet from the simulation of the municipality proposed alternative, and there has been no advancement in exploring the alternatives to the route that goes right by the separation fence.
Giora Rom did not address the fears of the residents regarding a possible accident that could occur at a very low altitude above the homes of the town’s residents. He determined that there is no danger to security in the proposed landing approach, despite the fact that only several hours prior to this meeting a plane which crashed in Iran and all 150 passengers on board perished, and a similar catastrophe happened less than a month ago in Yemen.
Giora Rom made it clear that he intends to authorize in the next few days the proposed new landing path which will bring the planes in right over Modiin, and to publicize them to all the international carriers. This is the final stage before the new landing path goes into operation. This is despite the fact that the civil aviation authority has not yet properly checked out the alternatives that they committed to examine when they met with the mayor of Modiin on June 21st.
The following is the Clear Skies response to this meeting:
We thank Giyora Rom and the civil aviation administration for agreeing to meet with us, listen to our concerns and laid out for us the constraints that they face. This is in sharp contrast to the Minister of Transportation, Yisrael Katz, who disregards our requests for a meeting despite the fact that he is an elected public official.
We expect the aviation planning authorities in the Ministry of Transportation to exhaust all possibilities and alternatives, and to leave no stone unturned before they decide arbitrarily to land planes, passing over Modiin at very low altitudes. We demand the authorities not to set facts on the ground and not to authorize or publicize the landing paths that the Israeli Airport Authority has proposed until after all the alternatives are thoroughly checked out.
We chose to build our homes in Modiin because it is a green and calm city. Because of our desire to live in this type of atmosphere we are willing to accept long commutes to our places of employment. If we were willing to live in a community adjacent to the airport , we would have done so. It is unacceptable that the residents of Modiin-Macabim-Reut should have to pay the price for the negligence of the Aviation and Planning Authorites of the Transportation Authority for the past many years, as was described in the Lapidot report.
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