Icelandic Volcanic Eruption - Significant Disruption to UK Flights

[XeNoN89]

our modern society loves to take the smallest thing to epic proportions. the flights in the 1980's flew through thick plumes of the stuff.

And the engines of planes failed and almost killed hundreds of people in several cases, want to take that risk again?

 

[VFR_KID]

Its great, summer dresses everywhere. My necks going to get a strain from all the oogling I'm doing.

Yup St Andrews was amazing last night half naked student chicks everywhere.

 

[lookitsjonno]

And the engines of planes failed and almost killed hundreds of people in several cases, want to take that risk again?

when you are 30,000 feet up in a tin can there is always a risk.

 

[XeNoN89]

when you are 30,000 feet up in a tin can there is always a risk.

That is correct, but the risk is so much smaller normally compared to when flying through volcano ash that it is irrelevant.

 

[lookitsjonno]

That is correct, but the risk is so much smaller normally compared to when flying through volcano ash that it is irrelevant.

all the news channels are going on about these planes in the 1980's which flew through Ash clouds, but they are not stating that they flew through thick flumes of the stuff at night, far closer than 1500 miles from the volcano.

at a guess i'd say the risk is probably less than flying in heavy wind/storms, but hey i'm no expert.

 

[Trick]

but hey i'm no expert.

Obviously

 

[Jokester]

Jet engines aren't remotely designed for sand blasting at 500mph.

 

[RobH]

Yeah, remember it's not just engine failure that the airlines are worried about, the dust causes a maintenance nightmare for anything that flies through it. A sandblasted windscreen isn't a cheap replacement, not to mention the potential problems caused by the dust getting into the various sensors and instrumentation.

 

[Immsy]

Ryanair just cancelled all their flights into and out of the UK until 1pm Monday.

 

[MasterPlan1]

No, it's just there are too many people on earth...

Well specifically people are everywhere, alongside global communications so incidents are communicated everywhere instantly.

 

[PhillyDee]

Volacanic ash is corrosive too, if it junks the engines, your holiday prices WILL go up. If a planes falls out of the sky, ditto.

Why even take the risk.

 

[4p]

Jet engines aren't remotely designed for sand blasting at 500mph.

bam

 

[Baz]

I for one don't fancy being in a commercial glider. Best to clear the skies until the ash buggers off...

 

[Jimbeam3678]

aircrash investigations anyone I remember a Ep where a plane flew over some area and engines cut etc etc , turned out because it was flying over active volcano.

sorry if already been mentioned , but it just reminded of that episode

 

[ShakenNstirred]

I bet he's using a Turboprop plane

there still a type of jet engine , but with a gearbox and a set of props on the end, instead of a set of fan blades
so there`s still a risk of engine damage

 

[Jokester]

Ash is now falling in rural Aberdeenshire apparently.

 

[pinkacidbootson]

when you are 30,000 feet up in a tin can there is always a risk.

If you cross the road there's always a risk of being run over, but that doesn't make it OK to cross when there's a car coming.

 

[Jambo]

If you cross the road there's always a risk of being run over, but that doesn't make it OK to cross when there's a car coming.

Don't be using common sense now.

 

[willhub]

They're using that "shopped" image on BBC News now

 

[newbiejim]

My car and every other car here has ash on it/them, I`m old enough to remember the same thing happening in 1980 when a week after Mt St Helens erupted I had red ash on my green mk 1 ford escort , interesting times, we should see some correlations being made now with 2012 etc lol