100 decibels: Residents report increased noise from new airline flight paths

After buying his Huntington Beach home in the 1970s, Mario Tabernig went along with hearing the occasional descending jet in the distance after Long Beach Airport transformed into a commercial hub.
But Tabernig’s patience ended earlier this year when the Federal Aviation Administration tweaked flight paths at 21 airports from Santa Barbara to the Mexico border.
“The windows shake,” Tabernig says of the new routes over his home. “You can’t do a business by victimizin