Therefore closing the entire airspace at is was done was a terrible overreaction.
Congrats on your worthless gift of 20/20 hindsight.
Would you have betted the lives of tens of thousands of fare paying passengers, as well as the financial health of six dozen airlines on this wild assumption before you had any scientific info upon which to base your decision?
No.
And neither did the European Governments.
Acceptable concentrations of ash (according to Flight International) are 10exp-17g/cuM.
Think on that number. There is no way, no way at all that you'd see or smell a concentration one hundred million times that level. No way at all.
Get a sense of proportion please - ie one several millions of times sharper than the one you are using right now...
