High-rise near airport to have top dismantled
By Li Qian |
June 29, 2012, Friday
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WANDA Group has been ordered to dismantle the top 10 floors of a 32-story mall built close to an airport in Sichuan Province after night flights were suspended due to the building?s excessive height, a report said.
The high-rise is 2.4 kilometers from the airport in Mianyang City, making it difficult for pilots to see the runway at night.
The cancellation caused the airport to lose up to 200,000 yuan (US$31,460) per day while the building?s proximity to the runway endangered all flights, Time Weekly reported yesterday.
The high-rise violated height restrictions and the developer should bear responsibility for the suspension of night flights, a department director with the Sichuan Civil Aviation Administration, surnamed Ni, told the newspaper.
A pilot, who declined to be named, said Wanda has been ordered to remove 10 stories from the top of the building. An anonymous government official verified this, according to the report.
Rebuilding would cost at least 200 million yuan, but the developer believes the Mianyang government should pay for it, the report said.
An unnamed Wanda employee was cited as saying the project had been approved by the Mianyang government.
An employee from the mall?s sales office was confident the building would remain untouched. The employee was quoted as saying: òThe mall will not be knocked down at the top. Wanda is so powerful in the industry.ó
Mianyang authorities refused to comment and have tried to prevent the news from spreading, the paper said.
The airport neither published notice nor gave an explanation after night flights were canceled.
The danger was discovered on April 22 when a night flight twice failed to land at Mianyang Airport because the high-rise was a huge obstacle in front of the runway. The plane was rerouted to land at another airport.
The Sichuan Civil Aviation Administration suspended night flights at the airport beginning on April 24.
The high-rise is 2.4 kilometers from the airport in Mianyang City, making it difficult for pilots to see the runway at night.
The cancellation caused the airport to lose up to 200,000 yuan (US$31,460) per day while the building?s proximity to the runway endangered all flights, Time Weekly reported yesterday.
The high-rise violated height restrictions and the developer should bear responsibility for the suspension of night flights, a department director with the Sichuan Civil Aviation Administration, surnamed Ni, told the newspaper.
A pilot, who declined to be named, said Wanda has been ordered to remove 10 stories from the top of the building. An anonymous government official verified this, according to the report.
Rebuilding would cost at least 200 million yuan, but the developer believes the Mianyang government should pay for it, the report said.
An unnamed Wanda employee was cited as saying the project had been approved by the Mianyang government.
An employee from the mall?s sales office was confident the building would remain untouched. The employee was quoted as saying: òThe mall will not be knocked down at the top. Wanda is so powerful in the industry.ó
Mianyang authorities refused to comment and have tried to prevent the news from spreading, the paper said.
The airport neither published notice nor gave an explanation after night flights were canceled.
The danger was discovered on April 22 when a night flight twice failed to land at Mianyang Airport because the high-rise was a huge obstacle in front of the runway. The plane was rerouted to land at another airport.
The Sichuan Civil Aviation Administration suspended night flights at the airport beginning on April 24.
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