Mistakes like this should bring down governments.
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.
And now for an attack on Killer Volcano Cloud Skeptics....
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.
I guess the engines of those Airliners were ruined by the northern lights.
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.....
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.
Why don't people lose their jobs over false scare tactics? Why don't facts and evidence mean anything anymore?
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
But the Leftist Leaders had the best of intentions!!!/s
The sky is falling!
The sky is falling!
The sky is falling!
“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.”
Guess nobody ever heard of weather balloons or high altitude sampling.
They can't get whats happening today straight, and yet we're supposed to believe the experts when it comes to Gorebull Warming.
Didn't exist? BS.
Not have been as dense as predicted by computer models? Maybe.
Safe to fly through? I wouldn't have bet on that with my planes and passengers without a lot more testing of the ash and my engines. I doubt that GE or Pratt&Whitney have much advice on volcanic dust other than "Avoid it".
Great chance for flying a plane through it (or at least the edges) or flying weather balloons through it to take samples to see how accurate the computer models are? Yes, but it sounds like it was missed.
The very same socialist media/pseudoscience hoaxers who gave us human-created Global Warming, have now given us the Great Ash Cloud that wasn’t.
Were they mostly Arabs? ;-)
The MET office used the same computer models to estimate the ash cloud that they use for estimating global warming.
Hmmm...
My wife was supposed to be on one of those flights that got cancelled. I prefer to have it cancelled than taking the risk. We were only inconvenienced, she wasn’t stuck in some airport, but even if she was I’d still rather not have her be a guinea pig for the airlines. I’m sorry they lost so much money but for once I have to side with the government incompetents.