A different article I read stated the couple who were complaining about the airport had preciously lived out under a turning pattern for Buffalo Airport.
The simple solution? Find out before you are going to build and see if it is any problem... like having a train nearby ( they didn't complain on that) or being near a quarry ( they are) or flooding ( they are on a spring fed area which has the potential) etc, etc.... as well as a very obvious airport. Will they want the town to "fix it" if a train derails, or the lake floods or the land in the close quarries shift and rattles the basement? This is nothing other than a glaring show of being a NIMBY... all too common now ( We have lived in the far end of town over 37 years and no one who as lived her that long does the NIMBY thing, just new builds and owners. They are embarrassing)