Britain’s airspace was closed under false pretences, with satellite images revealing there was no doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the entire country. Skies fell quiet for six days, leaving as many as 500,000 Britons stranded overseas and costing airlines hundreds of millions of pounds. Estimates put the number of Britons still stuck abroad at 35,000. [...]
Apr 27 2010 | Posted in
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A small amount of money spent on research and development might have prevented the huge economic consequences and social chaos caused by the eruption of the Icelandic volcano, Greek geologists say. Geology professor Spyros Pavlidis and his research team at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have developed a procedure to assess the results of volcanic [...]
Apr 26 2010 | Posted in
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Mother Nature at her most beautiful and most savage, must see….
Airspace in Scotland is to open from 0700 tomorrow as dust from the Icelandic volcano ceases to affect UK airspace. Sky sources understand airspace in the Midlands will then reopen at 1200 and southern UK at 1800. It’s understood that UK airports will then be allowed to conduct operations 24 hours a day until the [...]
Apr 19 2010 | Posted in
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