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Originally Posted by mountee
Also how can anyone doubt the damage to engines when you see that Fighter jet engine on the Sky News reports?
Nobody will contradict that volcanic ash can have such an effect on engines.
I would like to know what kind of conditions that fighter was flying in when that damage occurred.
I bet it was not in a clear blue sky, clear of all visible fumes!
Maybe ash encounter can have had the mentioned effect on the fighter engines.
But: How did these Engines look BEFORE the flight into the cloud?
Hopefully engineering at LH, KLM, AUA, BA,... that were doing very publicity effective flights with their bosses on board of one single aircraft (!!) have got a very good documentation about the state of the engines directly before todays departure.
If not, it either looks like nothing else than normal wear or "almost total destruction", depending on what you want to see.
They need data to compare, not just a few pictures to create an illusion!