University Daily Kansan / Thursday, August 28, 1986
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FAA may reinvestigate safety of tower location
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
The Federal Aviation Administration may consider a third investigation into the safety of installing a radio tower nine miles from Topeka's Forbes Field, an FAA investigator said yesterday.
Dale Carnine, a member of the Air Traffic Division, said the FAA received new data about the site. Carnine determined in January that the location was safe. KHUM FM-96, Ottawa, plans to install a radio tower.
He plans to review the information and decide whether the location needs to be reinvestigated.
"We may or may not open the case," Carine said. "I quite frankly do not have enough information to say if we will reopen it."
In January, Carnine determined twice that the tower's proposed location wouldn't be hazardous for airplanes, he said.
Carnine said that at the time of his investigation, he did not know that United Airlines would be servicing Topeka.
Jim Zimmerman, staff analyst of airfield operations for United Airline's flight operation department in Chicago, said that United's jets would have to make some weight adjustments in the take-off procedure if KHU installed the radio tower.
United Airlines has been flying out of Forbes Field since March.
Zimmerman said the airline would have to reduce the maximum weight capacity of its 737 jets by 7,000 pounds and of its 727 jets by 19,000 pounds to avoid any contact with the tower. Maximum weight capacity depends on the circumstances, he said.
He said the airline would be willing to make the restrictions, if present.
"This procedure doesn't affect departure, but it presents the potential of not carrying a full load of passengers," Zimmerman said.
Zimmerman said that United officials weren't happy with the situation.
"Ideally, we shouldn't have to work around this tower," he said. "We agree with George Boyd, Kansas director of Aviation, that, realistically speaking, the tower shouldn't be there."
Carnine explained that all aircrafts will have to modify their landing preparations because of the tower, but won't have to drastically change them
Boyd petitioned Washington to review the situation, Carnine said, because Boyd disagreed with the FAA's findings. The petition was turned down because no new information had been supplied.
"We really had no alternative as we saw it," said Commissioner Nancy Hiebert. "Our decision is to say if the land use is fine, but of course there must be scrutiny on the safety decision. Our decision would have been null and void if the FAA said it was unsafe."
Douglas County Commissioners approved the use of the land, which is in west Douglas County, for the radio Jan. 15.
Topeka residents Jim Woods and Pauline Beatty came to Lawrence Monday to protest the radio tower site. They said the tower was in an unsafe area for air traffic. Woods picked the Lawrence KHUO office Aug. 18, and said he planned to return to Lawrence again to protest, he said.
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By SHANE A. HILLS
The station, which used to be called Z299 and played current top 40 hits, now goes by the name 98.9 Gold and plays only top 40 hits from the 1950s, '60s and '70s. The format changed Monday.
Mark Wodlinger, the owner, said he fired six full-time and two parttime D.J.s because he needed different radio personalities to appeal to the station's new market: members of the baby boomer generation between the ages of 25 and 49.
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