Ever since the planes were grounded I have been wondering when or if we will ever be allowed to fly again. What organisation is going to give the all-clear and risk a plane being affected by volcanic ash? The fact that no plane has ever crashed after being affected by volcanic ash and that the only planes so affected have flown above erupting volcanoes not through these 'clouds of ash' that the experts' planes seem unable to find. I
see that KLM have sent a 737 up and it is reported that:
'"At first glance there is no reason to suspect that anything is amiss," says KLM chief Peter Hartman, who participated in the flight as an observer along with operations head Ype de Haan.
Initial technical checks in a hangar after the landing have also revealed no problems, although KLM says it will obtain final results today.'
Are there other reasons for European airspace being closed, is this a dry run for something more sinister?
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The volcanic ash it not the real problem. As I mentioned in my own blog, "When, back in 1982, British Airways Flight 9 flew into the plume of a volcano from Mount Galunggung to the south-east of Jakarta, it was the lack of Oxygen which caused the engines to fail". The carbon dioxide, in fact, was more widely spread than the ash, and it was only when Flight 9 had glided down until it was below the carbon dioxide cloud that the crew were able to restart the engines. Yes the engines were badly damaged, but it was the lack of oxygen which caused them to flame out.
The ash caused the engines to be virtually written off, and the front cockpit windows were effectively sand-blasted making them opaque. They landed on instruments and had to use the side opening windows to taxi.
So why hasn't the carbon dioxide from the Icelandic volcano been mentioned? Well it is somewhat embarrassing to the man-made global warming fanatics and to governments which are taxing carbon emissions when we have a volcano like this pushing out millions of tons of carbon dioxide which they would prefer to ignore. So far, I have found no estimated figures for the amount involved, but looking at such data that is available from the past, I would suggest that it is possibly pushing out more carbon dioxide in a day than Britain does in a year. So I needn't worry too much about my 4x4!
Littlejohn parted company with his fans when he suggested it was another case of "elf'n'safety gone mad"
will
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1266331/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-A-sensible-precaution-elf-n-safety-paranoia.html
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