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Remember that ash cloud? It didn't exist, says new evidence
Daily Mail ^ | SEAN POULTER

Posted on 04/26/2010 7:30:19 AM PDT by ventanax5

Britain's airspace was closed under false pretences, with satellite images revealing there was no doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the entire country.

Skies fell quiet for six days, leaving as many as 500,000 Britons stranded overseas and costing airlines hundreds of millions of pounds.

Estimates put the number of Britons still stuck abroad at 35,000. However, new evidence shows there was no all-encompassing cloud and, where dust was present, it was often so thin that it posed no risk.

The satellite images demonstrate that the skies were largely clear, which will not surprise the millions who enjoyed the fine, hot weather during the flight ban.

Jim McKenna, the Civil Aviation Authority's head of airworthiness, strategy and policy, admitted: 'It's obvious that at the start of this crisis there was a lack of definitive data.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; amazon; ash; aviation; catastrophism; computermodels; desertification; election2018; election2020; eyjafjallajokull; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; iceland; reality; refoliation; sahara; science; unitedkingdom; volcano
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To: cripplecreek

Ash clouds, and particles carried thousand of miles by winds are not the same thing. I am an airline pilot. I work in airline management in safety and risk management. The hysterical response to this event is a classic example of people who know nothing, acting with authority they should not have. BA 009 and KLM 867 flew through ash clouds close to the source. Equating them with flying into Europe after an eruption in Iceland is stupid. Finally, someone in Europe is starting to ask the correct questions - and to point the finger in the correct direction: “scientists” and politicians.


41 posted on 04/26/2010 8:37:48 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat
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42 posted on 04/26/2010 8:43:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: ventanax5

“Never let a good crisis go to waste...”


43 posted on 04/26/2010 8:46:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: ventanax5

But I thought science was infallible??


44 posted on 04/26/2010 8:50:05 AM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: Spok

This isn’t science. This is pure reliance on computer modeling with no collection of hard data.


45 posted on 04/26/2010 8:54:05 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Tzfat

Bump an informed voice of reason.


46 posted on 04/26/2010 8:55:58 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: null and void; Cheburashka
LOL!

Like my dear old dad always says, never jump out of a perfectly good airplane!

My sister took up skydiving, no thanks.

47 posted on 04/26/2010 9:05:18 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)T)
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To: CodeToad
This was a plane equipped with instrumentation to detect this sort of thing and it still missed it. The damage wasn't even evident in a visual inspection but it was pretty severe.

In the early morning hours of February 28, 2000, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) DC-8 Airborne Sciences research airplane inadvertently flew through a diffuse plume of volcanic ash from the Mt. Hekla volcano. There were no indications to the flight crew, but sensitive onboard instruments detected the 35-hr-old ash plume. Upon landing there was no visible damage to the airplane or engine first-stage fan blades; later borescope inspection of the engines revealed clogged turbine cooling air passages. The engines were removed and overhauled at a cost of $3.2 million. Satellite data analysis of the volcanic ash plume trajectory indicated the ash plume had been transported further north than predicted by atmospheric effects. Analysis of the ash particles collected in cabin air heat exchanger filters showed strong evidence of volcanic ash, most of which may have been ice-coated (and therefore less damaging to the airplane) at the time of the encounter. Engine operating temperatures at the time of the encounter were sufficiently high to cause melting and fusing of ash on and inside high-pressure turbine blade cooling passages. There was no evidence of engine damage in the engine trending results, but some of the turbine blades had been operating partially uncooled and may have had a remaining lifetime of as little as 100 hr. There are currently no fully reliable methods available to flight crews to detect the presence of a diffuse, yet potentially damaging volcanic ash cloud.
48 posted on 04/26/2010 9:11:13 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: AnAmericanMother

Even then, no hurry, you’ll always get to the crash site on time...


49 posted on 04/26/2010 9:17:11 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 459 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
"Frankly, I'll take sleeping on a chair in Heathrow any day of the week over plunging to my death from 30,000 feet."

You don't necessarily plunge out of the sky, Air Transat Flight 236 stayed aloft for 19 minutes with no engine power at all and was able to safely divert and land in the Azores instead of ditching in the middle of the Atlantic.

50 posted on 04/26/2010 9:34:04 AM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: ventanax5

I’m surprised The Marxixt Onada didn’t take advantasge of the ash “crisis” to nationalize the airlines. Surely flying airplanes caused the Icelandic volcano to erupt. I bet he even has climate change (aka global warming) data to prove it.

In any case, didn’t Bawney Fwanks or some other leftist dem pol say that with respect to the manufactured financial “crisis”?


51 posted on 04/26/2010 9:38:01 AM PDT by dools007
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To: ventanax5

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52 posted on 04/26/2010 9:55:50 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (?)
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To: dools007
I’m surprised The Marxixt Onada didn’t take advantasge of the ash “crisis” to nationalize the airlines.

It was probably a dry run. First you have to condition your victims.

53 posted on 04/26/2010 9:56:46 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (?)
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To: ventanax5

Next they will be saying that Man caused Global Warming doesn’t exist. (Oh, wait.)


54 posted on 04/26/2010 9:59:49 AM PDT by sportutegrl (I don't know where I'ma gonna go when the volcano blow.)
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To: cripplecreek

It takes a severe amount of material for satellites to pick it up with visual sensors. That silicate is very fine and floats in the upper atmosphere without detection. Fan blades of turbine engines suck up enough of it from seemingly acceptable air quality and become contaminated with glass adhering to the fan blades.


55 posted on 04/26/2010 10:02:10 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

Agreed.

What it looks like happened in Europe was overreliance on computer modeling and not enough hard data collection.

The 2000 NASA flight was a considerable distance from Mount Hekla when it encountered the invisible ash cloud. Interestingly enough, that plane wasn’t damaged as severely as it could have been due to the ash particles being coated in ice.


56 posted on 04/26/2010 10:09:49 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: ventanax5

From the beginning, I thought this was a phony crap lie…anything to keep folks off balance. Every week there is some new hysteria about the world coming to an end.


57 posted on 04/26/2010 11:12:27 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: cripplecreek
Again: An ASH CLOUD is not the same as what was over Europe 10 days ago. No one disputes avoiding ash clouds. What is in dispute is how an eruption 800 miles from Europe closes airspace for "volcanic ash" - and especially "volcanic ash" that is not visible.

When Mt St. Helens blew, the airspace was closed around the mountain. By the European (and apparently your) standards, the airspace should have been closed to the Mississippi River.
58 posted on 04/26/2010 12:34:04 PM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat

Whatever you say “pilot”

LOL


59 posted on 04/26/2010 12:43:32 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek
Whatever you say “pilot”

That's "Captain" to you. I have thirty years of flying experience - 25 for a major US airline. In addition to my line flying duties, I also serve in management in Flight Operations, doing safety and risk assessment. This type of thing is my job - and I get paid a lot of money to do it.

What do you do?
60 posted on 04/26/2010 12:57:36 PM PDT by Tzfat
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