Thread: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
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Old 22-04-2010, 16:05   #243
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Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
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Originally Posted by martyh View Post
oh come on flyboy airplanes fly through ash clouds all the time only the realy dense ones will cause a airplane to drop out of the sky .
Aeroplanes do not fly through ash clouds all the time. They are quite rare, especially in this part of the world. The cloud does not have to be very dense for glass deposits to form on jet turbine blades. This is why the aircraft were grounded in the first place.

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
That they shouldn't have to pay exhorbitant compensations costs.
No one is asking them to pay exorbitant compensation to anyone, only what is reasonable.
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