UK Planes grounded for 5 days - Any thoughts

[Travis]

Something does not feel right about this story - its been 5 days and all planes have been grounded in the UK, i.e. no plane has been able to leave UK air space and no plane has been able to enter. Could this be a cover for something else, perhaps a rehearsal for a big event? Forgive me if I sound paranoid but I just don't trust the government and I wanted to hear if anyone here has an insight into this story.

6:23am UK, Monday April 19, 2010

Damien Pearse, Sky News Online

The volcanic ash cloud crisis entered its fifth day today with the UK remaining a no-fly zone until at least 7pm. As the Government considered ways of returning thousands of Britons stranded abroad, pressure mounted on authorities to relax the flight ban.

Traffic control company NATS issued its latest statement at just after 3am this morning.

It read: "Based on the latest information from the Met Office, NATS advises that the current restrictions across UK controlled airspace due to the volcanic ash cloud will remain in place until at least 1900 (local) on Monday 19 April.

"Anyone hoping to travel should contact their airline before travelling to the airport.

"Conditions around the movement of the layers of the volcanic ash cloud over the UK remain dynamic."

Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said yesterday it was unsafe for flights to take place across most of northern Europe today.

And the cloud was expected to reach the United States later today, though no restrictions are in place yet,

Travel association Abta estimates around 150,000 Britons have been stranded abroad because of flight restrictions.

The government's "Cobra" emergency committee will discuss options to help stranded Britons this morning.

They include flying stranded Britons to Spain - whose airpsace has not been closed - and returning them home via rail and sea.

UK Flights Grounded Till At Least 7pm

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6:23am UK, Monday April 19, 2010

Damien Pearse, Sky News Online
The volcanic ash cloud crisis entered its fifth day today with the UK remaining a no-fly zone until at least 7pm.

Road sign near Orly airport in France

Danger? A sign on a highway approaching France's Orly airport

As the Government considered ways of returning thousands of Britons stranded abroad, pressure mounted on authorities to relax the flight ban.

Traffic control company NATS issued its latest statement at just after 3am this morning.

It read: "Based on the latest information from the Met Office, NATS advises that the current restrictions across UK controlled airspace due to the volcanic ash cloud will remain in place until at least 1900 (local) on Monday 19 April.

"Anyone hoping to travel should contact their airline before travelling to the airport.

"Conditions around the movement of the layers of the volcanic ash cloud over the UK remain dynamic."

    What we are looking at doing is flying people from further afield into Spain and using alternative means to transport them from Spain.

A No 10 spokesman

Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said yesterday it was unsafe for flights to take place across most of northern Europe today.

And the cloud was expected to reach the United States later today, though no restrictions are in place yet,

Travel association Abta estimates around 150,000 Britons have been stranded abroad because of flight restrictions.

The government's "Cobra" emergency committee will discuss options to help stranded Britons this morning.

They include flying stranded Britons to Spain - whose airpsace has not been closed - and returning them home via rail and sea.

Sky Man Reports From Mount Eyjafjallajokull

Navy ships may also be deployed to bring people back to the UK.

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said: ""We need to look at every single logistical option for getting our people back home."

Yesterday a British Airways Boeing 747 jumbo jet took off from Heathrow on a special test flight over part of the Atlantic.

This followed similar trials across Europe by airlines anxious to get aviation moving again following days of airport shutdowns.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said it had flown four planes through what it described as a gap in the layer of microscopic dust over Holland and Germany.

[MikeWB]

Or maybe it's really dangerous to fly through that smoke?

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... canic.html

Why does every event in the world have to be a conspiracy?

[superzebra]

the chinese refused to buy bonds from the fed two days later earth quacke.
the people oc iceland voted no for paying for the blackmail and then the volcano ureput(exploed)
hmm....??

[abduLMaria]

i don't understand how small dust particles can hurt the turbine engine of an airplane - if the particulate count is low.

i can understand why planes are grounded at airports that fall into the "dust plume" of the earthquake - England, Scandinavia.

in any case, this incident looks like it has the ability to put a sizable dent in Euro GNP.

which will not be good for the debt/GNP ratio.  Europe's ability to service their debt, after all the losses they took on the Zionists' credit derivatives, was already quite frazzled - before the volcano.

Iceland Volcano Stopping Transportation + Problems with Zionist Banker Bullshit = Big Problems for Debt Service.

I hope more European countries get the nerve to default on the debts they owe to the Zio-bankers.  Like I said in my post - "Conscious Default - Let the Banksters eat Sh*t".

[ssnstr]

maybe http://www.flightradar24.com/ could provide some help

also in link to torrent http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=16218
a file MILITARY _ NATO - LIVE EXERCISES AND EVENTS.pdf

just a thought

[sullivan]

Or maybe it's really dangerous to fly through that smoke?

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... canic.html

Why does every event in the world have to be a conspiracy?

Not everything in the world is, but there is certainly something strange about the extent of this flight ban.  Normally flights are rerouted away from active volcanoes, but rarely more than three hundred kilometres.  Once the plume has travelled this distance the pyroclasts start to disperse and fall to the ground. Granted, an area of high pressure is keeping much of the tephra aloft, but the sort of density that would cause damage to an engine would have noticeable effects at ground level. Even pilots are starting to question the wisdom of this ban. I've heard a number of commercial pilots on the radio question the need for such an extensive grounding of flights.

I'm also curious to know why the "powerful" harmonic tremors don't figure on the USGS M2.5/4.5+ list.

[Travis]

Guys like I said I am not paranoid but I know my enemies Modus operandi. Just think about it objectively, complete air travel into and out of the UK has been suspended for more than 5 days, this is profound. And the excuse given is due to a volcano around a 1000 miles away.

[bigwaga]

i'm not paranoid, but for feck sake, 5 days for a bit of dust, the sky looks fine to me. Looks like a lock down test if you ask me.

ps. iceland refuses to pay the banks back, then hey presto volcano. Ok i am paranoid, but WTF.

John