Volcanic Plume Causes Greatest Aviation Interruption in History
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, April 17, 2010, 2:49 PM
The volcanic eruption in southern Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier has caused the greatest aviation interruption in history.
Here is a time lapse video of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption.
FOX News reported:
A lingering volcanic ash plume forced extended no-fly restrictions over much of Europe on Saturday, as Icelandic scientists warned that volcanic activity had increased and showed no sign of abating — a portent of more travel chaos to come.
Scientists say that because the volcano is situated below a glacial ice cap, the magma is being cooled quickly, causing explosions and plumes of grit that can be catastrophic to plane engines if prevailing winds are right.
“The activity has been quite vigorous overnight, causing the eruption column to grow,” Icelandic geologist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson told The Associated Press on Saturday. “It’s the magma mixing with the water that creates the explosivity. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.”
An expansive cloud of grit hovered over parts of western Europe on Saturday, triggering extended flight bans that stranded people around the globe. Continued volcanic activity could produce more plumes if the weather patterns stay the same.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office said the amount of ash in the plume grew Saturday and that the vast ash cloud is continuing to travel south and southeast. Scientists had planned to fly over the volcano to see how much ice has melted to determine how much longer the eruption could spew ash, but the Icelandic Coast Guard said Saturday’s flight had been postponed.
Authorities evacuated hundreds of people after the fifth largest volcano in Iceland erupted beneath a glacier.
Aviation experts say the volcanic plume has caused the worst travel disruption Europe — and the world — has ever seen.
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ebayer commented:
I don’t understand why flights in Europe are canceled.
Is the ash that thick over all European airports?
Andreas K. commented:
Should my London trip be canceled because of this volcano, I’m considering suing Iceland, because they’re not capable of controlling their volcanos.. After all, if something is a public nuisance, one can sue, right? That’s what the AGW people always say, thus I can do it, too, right?
Andreas K. commented:
Ebayer, I see no ash here. I get the feeling someone is hyping it again.
“Authorities told people in the area with respiratory problems to stay indoors, and advised everyone to wear masks and protective goggles outside.”
Yeah, that’s true, but I have yet to see anyone do that. Life continues as usual. Nobody is wearing any protection.
allyHM commented:
It’s all Bush’s fault, of course.
ar05075 commented:
It also saved the Pols from having to listen to Obowmao make the Polish Presidents funeral all about him.
B. Obama commented:
You insolent Morons! you should know you history!
Thank me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
B. Obama commented:
British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Speedbird 9 or Jakarta incident, was a scheduled British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Auckland, with stops in Bombay, Madras, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Melbourne.
On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by City of Edinburgh, a 747-236B registered G-BDXH. The aircraft flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung (c. 180 km south-east of Jakarta, Indonesia), resulting in the failure of all four engines. The reason for the failure was not immediately apparent to the crew or ground control. The aircraft was diverted to Jakarta in the hope that enough engines could be restarted to allow it to land there. The aircraft was able to glide far enough to exit the ash cloud, and all engines were restarted (although one failed again soon after), allowing the aircraft to land safely.
The crew members of the incident segment boarded the aircraft in Kuala Lumpur, while many of the passengers had been aboard since the flight began in London.
Dell commented:
What a catastrophe!
(Now, maybe, they’ll learn how to function without all the modern conveniences, like my parents and grandparents did.)
I just hope they follow the safety instructions by avoiding the out-of-doors and wearing the face masks and goggles.
“It’s not what happens in life that matters; it’s how you react to what happens that counts”
Fiftycal commented:
WHERE IS THE EPA??? This is without a doubt, AIR POLLUTION! And, no doubt, EXCEEDING THEIR CO2 LIMIT! Iceland should be fined. In DOLLARS! Where is the UN? This is CRIMINAL! SUE GAIA!
Jean commented:
ar05075 | #5
Yeah you are right volcano spares Poland and America from embarrassment.
Jim in STL commented:
Probably the fault of AGW. If only we had heeded the warnings that ice cap may have been thick enough to contain the volcano.
Robb76 commented:
Andreas k
I was living in Washington State near Mt St Helens when she blew. Had to wear masks and all that. Word of advise;get some ladies nylon stockings and stretch over any air intake parts of your car engine. That ash can and will do much damage to the engine.
Opaobie commented:
Well, Obama tempted “Mother Nature” with his snotty, condescending crowing after he signed Obamacare into law when he said he didn’t see any meteorites or the Earth opening up, and no “Armageddon”, just birds singing and a beautiful day. Since then, as another poster here pointed out in a different thread, we have seen an extraordinary meteorite, visible over 5 midwestern states, and now “the Earth opening up” quite unexpectedly in a very unusual place and spewing great clouds of fire and brimstone and smoke.
God to Pharoah: “….so, you like frogs? OK,…….”
…Morale of the story: Jackasses should be careful not to bray too much, they don’t know just what kind of sleeping giant they might awaken.
Jo commented:
someone alert Al GHore, This was man-made. It Earth Nature could not take it anymore. Obama
s lies and hatred created ethereal ruptures in the balance of nature. Thus wreaking 30 years of automobile CO2 exhaust in one – hour. So Best remedy is to lock Obama away to deflect his lies and hatred away from nature.
czekmark commented:
Bbbuuutttt humans can make this go away just like they can control the weather (climate). /s
Mother Nature – infinity
Mankind – 0
B. Obama commented:
Opaobie HA! Such Foolishness! Dont you know who i AM? Dont you know how Intelligent and how Humble that i am! It goes without saying! How dare a peon like you question me, of Superior intellect.. you should be thanking me for just existing! ask anyone at the NY Times! Ask Frum he will tell you of my grace!
Andreas K. commented:
Opaobie, unusual place? Iceland is pretty active with volcanos, has always been. Nothing unusual there. It’s an island of fire.
Freddy commented:
What is the carbon footprint of this volcano?
Seems like there was an unconfirmed report that it has one the size of everything people have done over the last 120 years COMBINED!
B. Obama commented:
Since you insolent ignoramuses want to know!
Thank me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power_in_Iceland
Dennis Thompson commented:
Remember when he said this regarding his successful HealthCoup:
“I’m not exaggerating, leaders of the Republican Party called the passage of [HealthCoup] ‘Armageddon.’ Armageddon! ‘end of freedom as we know it.’ So after I signed the bill, I looked around to see if there were any asteroids falling or some cracks opening up in the earth. Turned out it was a nice day. Birds were chirping. Folks were strolling down the Mall.”
Shortly after the Kenyan said this, a meteor turned night to day streaking across five US states and the mid-Atlantic “crack” opened up in Iceland and spat out all this ash?
Is there a message in all this?!
Kenny Solomon commented:
Man, this has got to suck for anyone in the airflow pattern.
On top of that, I heard the revenue loss by just the airline industry world wide alone are kicking out to approximately $200 million per day. That’s without all the hotels, car rentals, and tourist/business transactions
On a personal note, I really hope this clears within the next few days….. I’ve got a band coming in from Norway to headline a music festival in Gettysburg Pennsylvania at the end of the month.
Six of the eleven bands playing the weekend could have their travel affected by this disaster.
KLS
Auntie Em commented:
B. Obama–you could use your superior intelligence and messenger-pigeon like brain sonar to fly ALL of the planes to Poland, probably all at the same time. At least forty planes at once….one plane per phalanx.
Why don’t you do that?? It would be great to actually see your intelligent design instead of just hearing you talk about.
We would thank you for that.
Seansie commented:
Somehow the commies will spin this as a consequence of global warming (as if there were never volcanoes before the dawn of man). WE DIDN’T LISTEN!
Jo commented:
Freddy
April 17th, 2010 | 4:27 pm | #18
What is the carbon footprint of this volcano?
+++++
20 failed Kyotos ; According to Al gore, who just came out from the rock he has crawled under, we have one week left to live.
crosspatch commented:
Europe needs to realize that this eruption could continue at this level for 5 years … or 15 … or it could stop tomorrow.
The last time this specific volcano erupted, the eruption lasted 13 months. Europe may well go a year or more without reliable air travel.
Where is the USS Manhattan when you need her?
Montserrat volcano in the Caribbean has been erupting for some 15 years and is similar in many ways to Eyjafjallajökull.
Those stranded travelers better start making other arrangements because if they think they are going to wait this out, they might be in for a surprise.
crosspatch commented:
SS Manhattan, rather.
down with dems commented:
Hey Barry, please explain how Cap & Trade is going to reduce volcanic eruptions… that video up there looks like a big f’n mess. How is raising our utility costs going to help when a volcano can just blow its top and negate any reduction in electricity usage due to you jacking up the price?
Guess that volcano erupting DID cancel your plane trip to Poland, so it actually reduced carbon emissions! A baby iceberg has been saved! Too bad fetuses aren’t so lucky.
Now, how to deal with that termite-caused global warming??? Maybe some more taxes!
B. Obama commented:
Auntie Em, the answer would be simple for anyone with intelligence..
instead of flying due east toward Europe one could fly west around the globe to Poland, however this is a convenient excuse for me NOT to go to Poland! I hate those stupid crackers and they are upset with me anyhow because of that stupid missile shield that i took away from them.. that should thank me
B. Obama commented:
down with dems, how dare you question me! BAH! with your ignorance! you FOOL! The reason the volcano went off is because of the Evil Bush! We need Cap & Trade to pay respect to all of the volcanoes for all of your past injustice’s .. thank me for my wisdom and enlightening you and for my humility!
ogee commented:
Wait until it spews more and more ash. It’ll float like a cloud then stand still and dump onto UK. That will be funny. Then another ash cloud will spew and float and dump onto another country. Over and Over again for long periods of time. That’s the nature of volcano’s. Iceland gets revenge on the EU for bankrupting them. The ash is like tiny shards of glass the size of sand. Wait until it gets in lungs, drains and carborators, gutters etc and well then Europe will be stranded. Poland and US are not affected. Ash clouds are fickle and go where the wind sends them-maybe right onto the thug house on the Potomac and stranding the bowwow fraud. We can call it a float and dump. It feels like pebbles falling out of the sky and is heavy as concrete. It looks like it’s snowing grey snow. They’ll track onto subways and everywhere including inside of buildings and houses. It’s a wonderful mess to happen. Shadenraude for the people of Iceland.
Larry commented:
Who will be the first to blame global warming?
ProLifer commented:
Not global warming…
GLOBAL WARNING!
Jack commented:
Cap and Tax the damn thing!
Valerie commented:
The ash is mostly up in the air, and widely dispersed, but it contains silicates, which when collected and heated, will for glass. It doesn’t take much glass to clog an engine, and ordinary engine temperatures will melt sand into glass. So yes, the threat to the engines is real.
What I want to know is when we need to start adding carbon dioxide to the air, to keep it warm. Of course, water vapor would be more efficient, but the panic-prone enviros don’t seem to know what the greenhouse gas that swamps the effect of carbon dioxide is.
PJ commented:
IOW if the glacial ice cap had actually melted, they would be in better shape. But since global warming has not melted anything, the plume is more deadly.
Explain that, ManBearPig.
Opaobie commented:
–>Andreas K. #17<–, yes, you are correct, I think there are more than 30 active volcanoes in Iceland, and there is a significant eruption every 4 or 5 years as I recall. I meant "unusual" with respect to the Bible prophecy and the reference to "Armageddon", which draws most people's attention to the Middle East. Since there are active volcanoes all over the world, and with the number of active ones in Iceland, an eruption in Iceland shouldn't surprise anyone…just the timing and world wide effects of this one so soon after President "Urkel" popped off.
…what’s with everything in BOLD?
Militant Conservative commented:
B. Obama
April 17th, 2010 | 3:17 pm | #6
you bore me, your an arrogant ass, just like the real Obama. no need for a redundant terd. One is enough. talk all ya want your letting the masses know what an irritant/lil prick you are.
Have a nice life, powder is dry
Auntie Em commented:
B. Obama…you truly do have words. Thank you for your dialect and stuff.
I know you didn’t miss it, being that you are a penileacle of intelligence, but maybe to explain to the lesser why you have 40 phalanges. I love that story.
Again, thank you for stuff.
Sojourner commented:
..Not to worry. The child/king will ‘regulate’ Mother Nature with Gaia tax on volcanoes to bailout airlines to fire up the economy with shovel ready jobs to load up the ashes and declare an unpredicted rise in ‘jobs created’ through his Stimulus.
BlueCollarTodd commented:
Maybe if we get President Obama to bow to the volcano it will stop?
Andreas K. commented:
Current outlook is that it might continue until Friday.
I’m starting to get miffed here. I see nothing of an ash cloud. I see rain clouds, plenty of them around here. Classic blue-ish rain clouds. Normal April sky! Where’s the friggin’ ash?!
I just saw a guy on a bike and a woman walking her dog right outside my window without any ash protection. Oh dear! How dare they! Not one car is protected. Some guy just zoomed past in a convertible with open top.
Seems the cloud is only between 3k and 5k meters altitude anyway. Which is where modern passenger craft don’t cruise. Plus the wind in Europe and how it actually seems to disperese the cloud across Europe already, which would lead to a smaller concentration of particles that could possibly endanger the engines. I don’t see how it would cause problems. Yeah sure, if I would try to land in Iceland, but nobody’s going to do that.
At least I found some alternative transport for my London trip on the 5th. But I don’t want to take the bloody train and spend almost 48 hours on the tracks to get there and back again. Worse, I’d have to go into Belgium and France. YUCK!
I’d rather take the risk and fly. Ash be damned.
And frankly, when I look into the sky right outside, I still say it’s an overreaction by the usual suspects. Rain clouds, that’s all there is.
BlueCollarTodd
April 17th, 2010 | 11:37 pm | #43
“Maybe if we get President Obama to bow to the volcano it will stop?”
Hmmm, well, for once I support the idea of human sacrifices. What if we throw President Obama into the volcano? It might stop. It’s worth a try.
Andreas K. commented:
Steven Verhagen, vice-president of the Dutch Airline Pilots’ Association and a Boeing 737 pilot for KLM, said he would have no qualms about flying today and his 4,000-member organization was calling for a resumption of flights.
KLM, Air Berlin, Air France, etc, they’re all sending planes into the “cloud” for test flights. So far no tech crew has reported anything even remotely disturbing.
People in the UK report great weather conditions. Brilliant blue sky.
The Center for Asia Pacific Aviation, an independent aviation research group based in Sydney, Australia, said it remained unclear whether the closing of much of Europe’s airspace was “a massive overreaction of super-cautious politicians and bureaucrats,” or a genuinely serious event.
The group noted that a similar eruption under a glacier in Iceland in the 1990s led to minimal disruption, with flights routed around the area.
“It certainly did not lead to region-wide closures of airspace. Such has the paranoia around safety and security grown since September 11,” the centre said in a statement.
Andreas K. commented:
Most of Norway’s airspace is now OPEN. Woohoo! Finally someone got balls and it’s the vikings.
AnnS commented:
Poster on the article about the volcano eruption
“I’ve not seen this much hot air and gas come out of a giant gaping hole since the last time I saw Al Gore speak”.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266403/Iceland-volcano-space-The-dramatic-ash-plume-engulfing-Britain-seen-above.html#ixzz0lTC1sOjw
“The Scream”
Meanwhile, a radar image of the volcanic crater appears to show a nightmarish face, which is reminscent of Edvard Munch’s painting ‘The Scream.’ Coincidentally, it is thought that the masterpiece was inspired by the blood red skies caused by the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266403/Iceland-volcano-space-The-dramatic-ash-plume-engulfing-Britain-seen-above.html#ixzz0lTC1sOjw
Auntie Em commented:
I second the idea of barry bowing to the volcano, and even jumping into it to appease it. Not that that is a great sacrifice, albeit according to barry himself, a smart and humble one.
I would thank him for jumping into the volcano to save the world from global warming.
Opaobie commented:
Andreas K. #44
“Hmmm, well, for once I support the idea of human sacrifices. What if we throw President Obama into the volcano? It might stop. It’s worth a try.”
…sorry, it only works if you throw in a Virgin, not a VERMIN…
ONEWITHABRAIN commented:
Comfortingly predictable to see you insular morons politicize this. Maybe Bobby Jindal can talk about volcano monitoring and how silly it is again.