Volcanic ash closes UK airports

[The Dragon Master]

Airline passengers are facing massive disruption as ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland moves across UK airspace.



All non-emergency flights have been grounded in the UK.



The disruption, which also hit Irish and north European airspace, has left thousands of travellers stranded at home and abroad. National Air Traffic Services have said all flights in UK airspace are being grounded from noon to 6pm at the earliest



Link + pictures: http://news.uk.msn.com/photos/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=153036031&ocid=today

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Thats not good.. Good thing you dont have to fly right now eh?

 

[The Dragon Master]

Aye, and we're being advised not to go outside, unless it's important.

 

[Jazzy]

Wow! Those were some awesome pictures. What a mess and all those travelers now stuck not being able to fly out of there.

 

[Crusader]

Aye, and we're being advised not to go outside, unless it's important.

BBC news said it's fine because it's so high up, and even if it did come down the concentration isn't high enough to cause any health issues.

 

[The Dragon Master]

Oh good

I can go outside now!! Well the dog can...

 

[Evil Eye]

Any satellite images of the current status?

 

[The Dragon Master]

Ermmm... *has a look*



Here's a pic of the cloud at it's source

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Here's like a heat image

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Better news article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm



It also mentions about a British Airways plane that unknowngly flew into a ash cloud. I saw that on Air Crash Investigation!!

 

[Evil Eye]

Thanks, that explains the clear blue skies

 

[Raven]

Aye, and we're being advised not to go outside, unless it's important.

Its 6 miles+ in the sky, It's not dangerous to be outside.

 

[The Dragon Master]

Its 6 miles+ in the sky, It's not dangerous to be outside.

My mother lies...

She told me that. I don't watch the news. I learnt that it was ok to go outside when I looked on the web.

 

[Raven]

It could mix with rain but unlikely seeing as the ash cloud is above the rain clouds.

 

[Bluezone777]

People can smell the sulfur even if they are many miles away from it. IMO if you can smell it then you probably shouldn't be out in it too much. Why take the risk for an unnecessary reason?



On the news here, they said a volcano can shoot this stuff up into the sky for a full year as it has happened before. There is no wind to carry or disperse this crap right now so they don't see air planes flying anytime soon in Europe due to the risk of engine failure by any plane going through the ash.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Well then we need to make ash proof air planes.

 

[Kasynlie]

It's more like half of Europe. Plus flights from all over the world have been disrupted as they can't get into Europe.

 

[Crusader]

Flights are cancelled here until Saturday now.

 

[Evil Eye]

Well then we need to make ash proof air planes.

Or teleporters!

 

[Alien]

A friend of mine got married on Thursday and she cant go on her honeymoon yet.