Maryland governor orders lawsuit against FAA over noisy flights
Maryland’s governor Larry Hogan has ordered state attorney Brian Frosh to sue the Federal Avaition Administration for making Maryland families ‘miserable in their own homes.’
It relates to the FAA’s NextGen flight routing program over Baltimore-Washington and Reagan National Airports where flights are getting louder and more frequent, the governor says.
Flights ‘rattle windows and doors’ the governor claims.
The majority of Maryland’s population of about six million live within earshot of aircraft taking off and landing at the two airports.
The new flight paths over the airports were introduced two years ago.
The AG’s office said a lawsuit is being considered.
"The attorney general has been very concerned for some time about the impact of the new flight patterns on many of our citizens," said spokeswoman Raquel Coombs.
"The office has been in conversations with both the Hogan administration and the FAA to address the issue."
The NextGen program was introduced by the FAA to streamline flight routing in order to improve safety and fuel efficiency at the nation’s airports.
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