View Full Version : Darwin Airport closed flights cancelled
leftof
31st May 2014, 01:51
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/24005669/volcanic-ash-closes-darwin-airport/
crewmeal
31st May 2014, 06:11
The Daily Mail have picked up on this.
Pictured from a passenger plane: Menacing 12-mile-high ash cloud looms over Indonesia's 'Mountain of Spirits' after volcano erupts | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644253/Incredible-moment-huge-volcano-erupts-Indonesia-sending-ash-spewing-thousands-feet-sky.html)
readywhenreaching
31st May 2014, 11:34
australian BOM:
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDD65290.png?20140531093142 (http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDD65290.shtml)
JW411
31st May 2014, 11:42
So all our expensive efforts to reduce carbon emmissions have gone down the plughole for another 50 years.
frangatang
31st May 2014, 12:06
Would this be moodys mountain, from 1984, BA747?
No,that was Mt.Galunggung in 1982
The linked article does mention 129 active volcanoes in the area.
Heathrow Harry
31st May 2014, 13:04
there are several Gunung Api's in Indonesia
This one is just NW of Komodo island and east of tambora
Not the one that sits on it's own in the Banda Sea - goes off quite often and has been used as a navaid for sea folk for centuries
10 DME ARC
31st May 2014, 13:24
From the above chart the ash over Darwin is in the upper air FL200 upwards?? Surely flights below that would be permitted??
Shot Nancy
31st May 2014, 14:08
Yep all ok good to go, ops normal below FL200.
Get real. Alaska Airlines or whoever they are set the scene for volash ops years ago.
Day VMC Rings a bell. You can't tell the difference between ash or cloud they said. Worked out alright for them. Good effort.
Capn Bloggs
31st May 2014, 14:51
What did you mean by all that? Are you criticising them or congratulating them?
australian BOM:
http://i.imgur.com/B0OdsQP.jpg
All but gone now
Darwin Airport flights expected to resume | News.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/darwin-airport-flights-expected-to-resume/story-e6frfku9-1226938784388)
FLIGHTS to and from Darwin are expected to resume on Sunday at least 5 flights currently converging on DRW :)
http://i.imgur.com/g0X2o3t.jpg
Capn Bloggs
1st Jun 2014, 04:22
at least 5 flights currently converging on DRW
Scramble the Alert-2 fighters! :ok: