Volcanic ash cloud brings flying to halt
Friday 16th April 2010, 10:00AM BST.
This false-colour short-wavelength infrared image shows Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano from data obtained by NASA's EO-1 Hyperion satellite on March 24, 2010. (NASA/JPL/EO-1 Mission/GSFC/Ashley Davies/PA Wire)
STRANDED passengers were left facing a second day of disruption today after volcanic ash grounded flights across Britain.
Channel Islands air space was closed this morning and airport deputy director Simon McPhail said the situation would be reviewed at 9am. Emergency flights would be considered case by case.
Fears that ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano could damage aircraft engines and cause a crash meant no flying for most of yesterday.
Early services got away, but as the cloud of ash moved south all flights were cancelled including inter-Channel Island. These resumed at 2.30pm and the airport closed at 7pm after the last one.
Mr MacPhail said it was one of the biggest disruptions the airport had faced since 9/11 terror attacks.
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Quick everyone lets concrete the runway while nobodys looking!
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I wonder what long term damage such major disruption will do to the airline industry.
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This is the exact reason why I said some time ago that they should not get rid of the sirens. God forbit lets hope it never happens but it would not take much for the particals to get into a plane engine and a disaster happens. We still have aurigny etc flying even today and yet the particals are meant to be exactly where we are! My car is covered in what appears to be an abnormal amount of dust.
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Ali, the flights are inter island, they don’t fly high enough so try not to worry.
slep, I read today that governments might have to bail out some airlines if this problem continues.
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Ali
That is exactly the reason why we dont need the sirens, the airlines were fully aware without the need for them.
Also how would they have helped? if they had gone off do you think the airlines would have known it was because of particles in the air?
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