Tiger
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The one in Iceland, no one's flying out of scotland today...
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Tiger
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm
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Rob_Lee
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Mad... just heard it on the news and thought it was a joke!
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Cavey
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I'm meant to be flying to Cuba from Manchester tomorrow morning!!! Shit! Hope it clears enough for tomorrow. But even if it does it's gonna be hell there now.
Not good, it's my girlfriends brothers wedding out there and they're there now.
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Seany
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just heard on the radio that they are sending people to london to fly out.
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Ojc
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Girl I know is supposed to be off to Turkey for the summer but hasn't left yet as a result and that's flying from Gatwick
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James
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All London airports closed too now.
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Steve
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Ridiculous
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sand-eel
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Coming to think of it, the sky does look rather ashy today.
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Matty SRi
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I'm gutted, my dad was due to fly out of dublin airport this morning to come see his grandson for the first time. Cancelled so had to go back home again, now gotta wait n see how long it takes to get another flight.
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sand-eel
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Personally, I don't think 1 single aircraft would be affected.
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better to be safe than sorry
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Matty SRi
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quote: Originally posted by sand-eel
Personally, I don't think 1 single aircraft would be affected.
There was a nearly identical incident on 15 December 1989 when KLM Flight 867, a B747-400 from Amsterdam to Anchorage, Alaska, flew into the plume of the erupting Mount Redoubt, causing all four engines to fail.
"Nats has good cause to be very cautious about this because in about 1982 a British Airways jumbo had the unnerving experience of having all four engines shut down as it flew through a plume of volcanic ash."
[Edited on 15-04-2010 by Matty SRi]
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willay
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quote: Originally posted by sand-eel
Personally, I don't think 1 single aircraft would be affected.
Something like this happened in the states and it caused a planes engines (all four of them) to stall, apparently the pilot had to put the plane into a dive (he was at quite a high alt.) to get the engines spinning and then give them fuel to start it up again.
TRUE INTERNET STORY.
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willay
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PMSL fuck you Matty
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ed
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+
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
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Matty SRi
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quote: Originally posted by willay
PMSL fuck you Matty
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sand-eel
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Yeah heard about that story on some program on TV, they flew right into the ash so yes I would expect adverse effects from that
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Steve
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If you look where the ash is, its nowhere near scotland, let alone london, any areas near scotland are merely "ash present".
I can understand closing scottish airports, maybe, but not london ones
[Edited on 15-04-2010 by Steve]
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willay
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Not worth taking the risk steve, we're talking about planes full of people here
also you got to think of flight paths, planes never go as the crow flies do they?
[Edited on 15-04-2010 by willay]
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Steve
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I bet C-47's full of parachuters would have flown through it in WW2
[Edited on 15-04-2010 by Steve]
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Steve
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Im going to claim a free new MAF from Ford, stating that i have ash in my current one
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ed
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quote: Originally posted by Steve
If you look where the ash is, its nowhere near scotland, let alone london, any areas near scotland are merely "ash present".
I can understand closing scottish airports, maybe, but not london ones
[Edited on 15-04-2010 by Steve]
Huh?
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1271309704.png
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Steve
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as i understand the blue bits are dense ash and the rest just ash present, which could mean anything really. TBH im not going on a plane soon so im quite happy to sit here and argue they should be flying
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sand-eel
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What a bunch of ashholes.
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