I've heard a story from a former American Airlines mechanic, who worked at LaGuardia, that an old locomotive was buried, as part of a landfill / dump, beneath one of the airport's runways. Apparently this locomotive, due to its size and the amount of iron, could cause interference with compass headings.
2007-01-03 14:03:11 · 4 answers · asked by rauhbautzvii 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Unsure about the locomotive part in the landfill, but the airport has a metal reinforcing framework which interferes with the magnetic compass at some phases of flight around that airport.
2007-01-03 16:24:00 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And Jimmy Hoffa is in it! No there is no locomotive under the runway. They could not allow something like that that would interfere with a compass or navigational devices.
2007-01-03 22:09:48 · answer #2 · answered by mark t 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a lot of rerod in the concrete runways, metal buildings, automobiles, just metal all over the place even in the planes. iron in the ground, iron in the water,
Don't think a old engine would change any thing
2007-01-04 07:13:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I usually use LGA when traveling, and I have never heard this before (for that matter, I've never seen or felt it either!).
Do you know which runway it was? I'd like to know. Thanks!
2007-01-04 16:47:38 · answer #4 · answered by Joshua Z 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋