volcano

[billy]

Interesting idea. The volcano spits out an estimated 750 tons per second of ash at it's peak, and now there are folks saying it never really happened.

Maybe it was all a conspiracy by the British MET office to bankrupt the European airlines?

Seriously guys, it did all happen.

like i said it never happened before, i'd sooner have them ere on the side of safety rather than face death lol. maybe they could have opened the air up sooner. but for once it seemed the govs of the west put their citizens over money.

as for the war games that took place, they don't fly at the same altitudes as commercial airliners, and if i remember one of their jets had glass in one of its' jets.

it also seemed the newspaper got it's facts wrong.

To test the safety of the skies, some fighter jets flew during the closure period. Not all came back unscathed — one Belgian F-16 and two Finnish F-18s reportedly had engine damage after flying through the ash cloud, an outcome that could bode ill for future fighter operations if the volcano continues to belch ash.

Like their commercial cousins, fighters, reconnaissance planes, helicopters and other military aircraft around the region sat idle for days. They are just now beginning to come back to life, although fighter jets — which have highly sensitive engines — remain grounded across much of Europe.

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