Runways and gas stations = a fiery mix
It was bad enough that the runway in Sao Paulo where the plane crashed last night was dangerously short, but then they go and stick a gas station next to it. Remeber that plane that overshot its landing at Burbank Airport in 2005 and came terrifyingly close to taking out a Chevron station on Hollywood Way?
I'm no airport expert but it seems to me that considering the risk of skidding off a runway, it's a bad idea to put a gas station within skidding distance. Probably all those people would have died when the jet fuel exploded, but maybe not.
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