Remember that ash cloud? It didn't exist, says new evidence

Daily Mail ^ | SEAN POULTER

[glorgau]

Mistakes like this should bring down governments.

[AnAmericanMother]

Classic case of inadequate information and a BIG downside risk.

Junk in the engines will drop a plane like a rock, and it doesn't take much.

The airlines were weighing inconvenience against the possibility of debris ingestion and LOTS of deaths.

Frankly, I'll take sleeping on a chair in Heathrow any day of the week over plunging to my death from 30,000 feet.

[dalight]

And now for an attack on Killer Volcano Cloud Skeptics....

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It will be found to be a deliberate plan to increase revenues for hotels, alternative travel means, etc. in certain European countries. This was the sole purpose of the flying ban.

[puppypusher]

I guess the engines of those Airliners were ruined by the northern lights.

[Brett66]

The National Air Traffic Control Service decision to ban flights was based on Met Office computer models

I wonder if we could use these models for global warming predictions and to provide a basis for a trillion dollar tax scheme and the re-ordering of society?

Oh wait, they already did that.....

[AnAmericanMother]

Better governments than airplanes. Or airlines, after they're hit with multiple wrongful death suits alleging negligence in failing to ground the fleet.

My dad was a specialist in aviation disaster litigation back in the day.

The safety margin is not all that wide when you're talking about debris in the air. Sometimes you have to make a judgment call, and people are only screaming about being stuck abroad because we didn't have multiple engine failures from ingestion of ash.

[Cheburashka]

The cloud may have been much less dangerous that previously feared.

Of course if there had been no precautions taken and there were planes falling out of the sky due to destroyed engines, the same pinheads now decrying an excess of caution would be decrying a lack of caution.

Pinheads - always complaining.

[Blue Turtle]

I’d rather side with “caution”.....

[TChris]

Hmm, lessee: An influenza scare over a strain much less deadly than the seasonal one, and a multi-multi-million-dollar priced flight ban over volcanic ash that really wasn't a big deal.

Why don't people lose their jobs over false scare tactics? Why don't facts and evidence mean anything anymore?

[Mr. K]

Dust that can cripple an engine can be so fine you cannot see it

I would NOT want to fly though it- it is already shown that it can destry an engine

It may be small and hard to see, but at hundreds of miles per hour the engine is sucking in a LOT of air- and any fine dust can destroy it

[Cheburashka]

Frankly, I'll take sleeping on a chair in Heathrow any day of the week over plunging to my death from 30,000 feet.

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Oh, come on. where's your spirit of adventure? You might enjoy plunging to your death from 30,000 feet if you just tried it.

Yeah, I'm kidding.

[Jack Hydrazine]

But the Leftist Leaders had the best of intentions!!!/s

[Frenchtown Dan]

The sky is falling!
The sky is falling!
The sky is falling!

[ventanax5]

“The National Air Traffic Control Service decision to ban flights was based on Met Office computer models which painted a picture of a cloud of ash being blown south from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano.”

[mockingbyrd]

Seriously. So they made a mistake. A mistake on the side of protecting thousands of lives. So yeah, maybe they misunderestimated the risk, and thousands of people were inconvienenced, but at least they’re alive now to whine about it.

Could you imagine the uproar if just ONE flight had crashed due to debris?

[saganite]

That’s just a tad overwrought. The aircraft that have actually suffered engine damage from a volcanic ash cloud flew through a cloud, not a dispersed remnant.

[saganite]

That’s pretty much the argument the global warming crowd uses.

[null and void]

Frankly, I'll take sleeping on a chair in Heathrow any day of the week over plunging to my death from 30,000 feet.

No spirit of adventure...