RESOLUTION BANNING Fleet Week Blue Angels over San Francisco fails
26 September 2007San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly’s hopes of halting the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels show from performing its aerial acrobatics over the city during Fleet Week crashed Tuesday when the board of supervisors failed the resolution.
Supervisors voted down the resolution just before 2:30 p.m. Newly appointed interim Supervisor Carmen Chu, who attended her first meeting Tuesday as the representative for District 4, voted against the resolution.
After a slight technical problem, Daly showed the board members still photos taken after fatal air accident, which occurred during a Blue Angels show in April in a small rural town in South Carolina.
“Beaufort, South Carolina has a population of 12,950 people,” Daly said, “and when a Blue Angel plane crashed there eight people on the ground were injured. What would happen if this happened over a heavily populated area like San Francisco?”
Before the supervisors voted on the resolution, Daly addressed the board and reiterated the reasons he believes that the Blue Angels show should be halted.
Daly submitted the resolution because he said it is “not a necessary risk that the city needs to take.” He believes that having the fighter pilot exhibition over a densely populated area like San Francisco poses an unwarranted risk to life and property.
“It is strictly for entertainment and an accident would cause significant loss of life,” Daly said.
The Blue Angels had its first air show in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1946. About 15 million spectators see the Blue Angels in air shows each year.
Blue Angels’ air shows have resulted in 26 fatalities nationally during the past 60 years.
The group’s mission is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting efforts. An annual tradition in San Francisco since 1981, Fleet Week this year is scheduled for Oct. 4-9.
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3 Responses to “RESOLUTION BANNING Fleet Week Blue Angels over San Francisco fails”
September 26th, 2007 at 9:27 AM
[...] I’m ashamed of San Francisco, a city I love to visit, a beautiful, appealing metropolis. More deserving of such opportunity–more deserving than the filmers of Rice-A-Roni, baseball teams, and soft drink bottlers– are the Marines of the United States of America. Furthermore, I’m ashamed of San Francisco for trying to prevent the Blue Angels from performing during Fleet Week, and for disbanding ROTC in their Junior High schools. [...]
October 4th, 2007 at 6:57 PM
U.S. Marines and San Francisco:: The real facts.
San Francisco did exactly what every city in America would have done regarding the U.S. Marines request to film a commercial.
Why is there now 285,000 websites criticizing the City?
Look at what actually happened: The request of the Marines asked permission to film at the intersection of California and Mason Streets all day on Tuesday, starting during the early morning commute rush. Their request said there would be 50 marines plus 60 in the film crew and numerous trucks and cranes.
They were told that no one is allowed to block that intersection at that time of day. However, permission was given to the Marines to film at that very intersection from 10 AM to 3 PM on Tuesday. The Marines replied that they wished to start filming earlier than 10 AM. So, San Francisco issued a permit to the Marines to film all day Sunday at the requested intersection, starting at any time they wished. On Sunday, when the film crew began filming, it turned out that the Marines were unable to get there, so they were digitally added into the commercial.
Someone should make a study to show how upset people can become when they don’t have all the facts.
Respectfully submitted,
Ed Morris
http://www.6-year.com
http://www.1six.us
October 6th, 2007 at 4:53 PM
How can one actually say that they are ashamed of the city of San Francisco when one does not actually live and work here? Having had the Blue Angels fly by my building a few years back and scare the youknowwhat out of everyone in my office, as well as the city, I can say first handedly that they are dangerous. The consequences of a crash would be dire, and quite frankly, no one ever asked any of the citizens of San Francisco if they felt comfortable with having their lives being put in danger, all in the name of entertainment and the military. It is a disgusting display of ignorance to think that this will go on forever in complete safety.