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Even though noise wasn’t a factor in the accident, February’s Challenger overrun at Teterboro has inevitably resurrected local residents’ complaints about

Even though noise wasn’t a factor in the accident, February’s Challenger overrun at Teterboro has inevitably resurrected local residents’ complaints about aircraft noise. It doesn’t take much, as we all know, to reinvigorate the anti-noise folks.

Yet while Teterboro has no current noise bans–Stage 2, 3 and 4 aircraft can operate there– AIN understands that most corporate jets using the field are Stage 4 compliant. Still, based on the protesters’ theory that any noise from an aircraft is bad, is there a solution?