Residents Complain of More Flight Noise

Several Marina del Rey residents are upset over what they say is an increase in noise from planes flying out of Los Angeles International Airport.

Residents of Ketch Street have written a barrage of letters to LAX officials, complaining that airplanes that once flew two miles off the shoreline “now make a hard right, flying directly over our Marina Peninsula oceanfront condos,” said resident Robert Fried. “I can take a 7 iron and hit golf balls over the planes from the shoreline.”

But airport officials said there has been no change in flight patterns.

“We’d be the first ones to know if there were changes because [flight patterns are] fixed,” said airport manager Stephen Yee.

Yee said the airport hopes to find out what is causing the complaints when it meets with the Federal Aviation Administration over the next two weeks. “We want to be good neighbors,” he said.