Etna erupting

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[Vaquero]

Strombolian activity at the NE Crater (Osservatorio Meteorologico Nunziata webcam) Strombolian activity at the NE Crater (Osservatorio Meteorologico Nunziata webcam) Etna (Sicily, Italy): (18 May) Since yesterday, volcanic tremor has been gradually increasing and during the evening mild explosive strombolian activity started from the North-East crater. At the time of updating, this explosive activity associated with ash emissions has started to produce a dense plume

[Gamecock]

British Airways Flight 9

[Gamecock]

Sadly we were locked down on Sig.

But I agree Taormina would have been great.

[DuncanWaring]

Ash clouds flame-out jet engines, leading to ditching in the water in one piece; not mid-air explosions.

[MortMan]

I had to look up the definition for ‘strombolian’, as I could not fathom how a rolled up Italian delicacy related to a volcano.

Does anyone know if the Egypt Air flight traversed an ash cloud?

[left that other site]

Aw darn!
You beat me to it! :-)
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[Rummyfan]

To all my friends in Sigonella, hope this doesn’t cause problems.

[grania]

Thanks for that link. It sounds a lot like what happened to this flight, and perhaps the pilot’s attmepts to avert disaster.

[SaveFerris]

What Egypt Air?

[SaveFerris]

OK, I see now, another Egypt Air flight is missing.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Oh please. He would have been able to contact someone to let them know the engines were out. No contact with anyone, just gone, equals terrorists.

[SaveFerris]

Yes I’ve had Stromboli. Been awhile.

[Vaquero]

Ash clouds flame-out jet engines, leading to ditching in the water in one piece; not mid-air explosions

With all engines out power for the hydraulics is either nil or extremely limited. From 37000 feet you would lose power to control on the way down as opposed to the miracle on the Hudson where sully still had some hydraulics as he was close to the ground.
Did they definitely say it blew up high? I did t read that

[DuncanWaring]

I haven’t heard anything definite yet.

Even if they lost all hydraulics, the pilots would still have had time for a “Mayday” call.

[Theophilus]

Man that looks good!

[DuncanWaring]

The missing Egypt Air plane is an A320, which appear to have a ram-air turbine to provide hydraulic power in case of loss of engines.

[dfwgator]

From what I understand Vesuvius is due at anytime to blow again....and there are a heck of a lot more people living in that area than there were in 79 AD.

[Parley Baer]

“All those migrants in Sicily must be making the island tip over.”

Paging Hank Johnson. Paging Hank Johnson.

[Cementjungle]

Ash clouds flame-out jet engines, leading to ditching in the water in one piece; not mid-air explosions.

Yea, but having a Stromboli sucked into the engine might have caused something. Lots of flammable grease.

[Vaquero]

Yeah I did a search too. Found the same thing. Ram air turbine. Interesting. Probably terrorists anyway.

[Vaquero]

From what I understand Vesuvius is due at anytime to blow again....and there are a heck of a lot more people living in that area than there were in 79 AD

Glad grandpa got out from under Vesuvius' shadow and came to America...circa 1905 Anno Domini.