Is this America's most dangerous airport? Calls to move Utah travel hub notorious for plane crashes because of VERY challenging terrain

A Utah airdrome notorious for level crashes has sparked statement astir nan information of its location, pinch section officials calling for nan installation to beryllium relocated.

Roy Mayor Robert Dandoy is starring nan complaint to move nan airport, aft a bid of level crashes adjacent Utah's Ogden-Hinckley Airport successful caller years.

The latest incident occurred conscionable past Wednesday erstwhile a mini level collapsed into nan gait of a location successful Roy, a suburb of Ogden.

While some pilots survived pinch injuries, nan adjacent telephone has sparked concerns astir nan airport's information record, owed to its proximity to residential areas and challenging terrain.

In 2017, different fatal clang occurred connected 1 of nan city's awesome roadways.

In 2019, a mini level collapsed connected a Utah road aft it made an emergency landing connected nan aforesaid road past year.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Allen Kenitzer says nan single-engine level deed a advertisement and collapsed adjacent Ogden-Hinckley Airport connected Interstate 15.

Again successful 2020, a level clang damaged 2 homes successful Roy, resulting successful fatalities.

The astir caller clang happened conscionable northwest of Roy High School.

'It was a occurrence that those 2 pilots survived,' Dandoy told KSL, referring to nan caller crash. 

'And it surely was a occurrence that (the) craft didn't onshore connected nan apical of 1 of those houses,'

'I can't moreover ideate really it was capable to weave done each of that and those group survived it, but that's not ever going to beryllium nan case.'

The politician is besides concerned astir nan truth that 3 schools dishonesty wrong nan airport's formation path, putting hundreds of students perchance astatine risk. 

Dandoy suggests relocating nan airdrome to 'west Weber,' an area pinch much unfastened abstraction and distant from residential areas.

'Where we person wide unfastened spaces tons of places, (we would) surely beryllium capable to power encroachment, if it was moved retired to westbound Weber,' Dandoy said.

He mentioned nan relocation of St. George Airport, which was moved to a much distant location aft failing to meet Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards.

However, not everyone agrees pinch nan projected solution. 

Erik Johanson, a aviator who regularly flies retired of Ogden-Hinckley, argues against relocation:

'That's not a solution,' Johanson told 2KUTV. 'You can't move this airport. There are excessively galore resources here, there's been excessively overmuch invested successful it.'

'Ogden Airport sees astir 290 flights a day,' he added.