Flying through volcanic ash clouds

[lomapaseo]

It is not quantified and is therfore journalistic soundbite fact-free misleading nonsense.

Well the particles can get super-hot enough to melt which turns the dust to glass which then deposits on the vanes behind the burner which renders the engine unresponsively dead to the pilots throttle in about a minute.

I thought he came pretty close to nailing it.

Of course there is room to quibble just like your words of utterly, hogwash & bolleaux

but then how else does one add emphasis in grabber type headlines that the public will understand?