Volcano eruption in Iceland disrupts UK, Norwegian flights

[Razgovory]

I hope the volcano never stops.

[Tonitrus]

I am wondering why no one has declared war on Iceland yet.  Surely ash ejection is a casus belli.

[Zanza]

Lufthansa and some other airlines made a couple of testflights in the the supposedly dangerous area and height and they did not find any damage to their planes. So now they question if this wholesale ban is really necessary.

[Martinus]

LOL an entire plane of government officials crashes and now a volcanic ash cloud paralyzes airline communication in Europe.

If some political thriller writer used any of these events as a premise for one of his books, everyone would say it's a stretch. 

[Sheilbh]

I am wondering why no one has declared war on Iceland yet.  Surely ash ejection is a casus belli.

Can't bomb them

[Legbiter]

Lufthansa and some other airlines made a couple of testflights in the the supposedly dangerous area and height and they did not find any damage to their planes. So now they question if this wholesale ban is really necessary.

The ash seems to have seriously fucked up the engines of 5 F-18's from the Finnish airforce who flew through the ash cloud before their airspace closed though. That's a long way from Iceland.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yes, maybe only one in thousand flights would be affected, but apparently there are some 17,000 flights cancelled today.

[Warspite]

Lufthansa and some other airlines made a couple of testflights in the the supposedly dangerous area and height and they did not find any damage to their planes. So now they question if this wholesale ban is really necessary.

Apparently it turns out where ash has been a problem, it's been in cases where jets have inadvertently flown through the plume itself. 

[Admiral Yi]

The ash seems to have seriously fucked up the engines of 5 F-18's from the Finnish airforce who flew through the ash cloud before their airspace closed though. That's a long way from Iceland.

They should have waited the full 28 days.

[Legbiter]

Yes, maybe only one in thousand flights would be affected, but apparently there are some 17,000 flights cancelled today.

It should help if the UK got a decent amount of rain. So, pray to Odin for it to rain in the UK? 

[Caliga]

Lufthansa and some other airlines made a couple of testflights in the the supposedly dangerous area and height and they did not find any damage to their planes. So now they question if this wholesale ban is really necessary.

I'm sure the reason for the ban is because there was an incident in IIRC the 1970s where a British Airways 747 happened to fly over an erupting volcano in Indonesia and the ash plume flamed out all of its engines.  They did manage to get enough of them restarted to manage to land safely, but the plane lost a lot of altitude first and it was basically a race against time for the crew.

[Sheilbh]

Yes, maybe only one in thousand flights would be affected, but apparently there are some 17,000 flights cancelled today.

It should help if the UK got a decent amount of rain. So, pray to Odin for it to rain in the UK? 

No.  We're enjoying really lovely sunny weather right now (I'm about to go to the park) and frankly I'd rather have sun than international travel.

"ASH OVER CHANNEL: CONTINENT CUT OFF"

[Richard Hakluyt]

I think it would be rather good if volcanic ash stopped all future travel by jet aircraft. It is a shitty method of travel that smears out the differences between places because it is too cheap and quick. Zeppelins, luxuriously appointed trains and great passenger liners would be far preferable 

[Legbiter]

Huh, and now the geophysicists are back to being pessimistic about when the volcano will settle down and stop farting in Europe's general direction.

[The Brain]

I say it's time we strike back.