How Dangerous Was the Volcanic Ash Cloud?

Once again the correct course of action is clearly visible, after the event.

Of course the responsible authorities had no choice, they had to act to ensure public safety. What else could they do? Gamble with the lives of thousands of people?

It is really dangerous ,but everything will be ok soon!

My engineering institution's magazine asked this same question and the majority of respondents said it was the right decision - although many commented that it took too long to fully analyse the dust and declare it safe to fly.

My comment was that in their shoes I'd rather deal with a horde of irrate and late home travellers than with the relatives of late travellers who were mistakenly told it was safe.

Hi,

if the authorities have to act towards total safety then I expect total and permanent closing of all streets - no more motor traffic allowed.

RHABE

I don't believe anything written the the Daily Mail (Daily Heil). The newspaper(Sic) tries to develop a hysteria over everything. Thank God for the sensible answers so far.

I think it was RAF F-18's, but could have been a different air force and different aircraft type, that flew through a known ash-infused region during air space closure and came back with pitted compressor parts. The risk was real, the popular media (not sure how sleazy Daily Mail is) is full of it as usual.

Better safe than sorry !

Your avatar called my attention, is that the point where you break sound barrier?

Yahlasit

Hi,

I heard about F16's from Finland, you are right that the turbines were to be overhauled,

but they did make a flight around Iceland and there was no information about the quantity of ingested "ash".

Lufthansa and Airbus-Industries made bot 4 hour tours inside the "cloud" over central Europe, no report about any damage.

Think about safe landing in desert storms with a lot of dust and sand in the air.

Turbines are safe for this, but not with very long life.

RHABE