Duck...!

Everybody knows that having an airport in the middle of a dense conurbation is asking for trouble. Quite apart from the disruption to residents caused by low-flying aircraft, it really is only a matter of time before there is a disastrous accident involving an aircraft crashing into a residential area. So Heathrow is simply the wrong place to have an airport, and expanding it is just compounding the problem. Boris Johnson's plan for a new airport in the Thames Estuary will be horrendously expensive (does anyone really believe it will come in at the estimated £40 billion?) but it is clearly the right way to go.