Smutný a dramatický koniec tohto letiska je popísaný aj na adrese:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field
Krátky citát: ... In a controversial move on March 31, 2003, Mayor Daley ordered private crews to destroy the runway in the middle of the night, bulldozing large X-shaped gouges into the runway surface.[7] The required notice was not given to the Federal Aviation Administration or the owners of airplanes tied down at the field, and as a result sixteen planes were left stranded at an airport with no operating runway, and an incoming flight was diverted. The stranded aircraft were later allowed to depart from Meigs' 3,000-foot (910 m) taxiway...
Samozrejme, asi budem sprdnutý, že tu spomínam také všeobecne známe veci, ale predsa len, risknem to...
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