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Old 16th Apr 2010, 16:48
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Nemrytter
 
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So on the basis of one event recorded in detail by NASA, we are grounding the whole of Western Europe's aviation? That's a rather limited data set to destroy the industry with eh?
The ash plume that the NASA aircraft flew through was, according to the latest data, about 5 times less dense (600ppmv compared to 2800ppmv) than the ash plume density over most of the UK yesterday. It was 20 times less dense than the peak concentration measured North of Scotland.
go fly through it if you want, but don't say you weren't warned if your aircraft doesn't behave the way you expect.
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