Remember that ash cloud? It didn't exist, says new evidence
By Sean Poulter
Last updated at 10:28 AM on 26th April 2010
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.
Stranded: Hundreds of desperate Britons sleep on the basement floor at Bangkok's International Airport, Thailand waiting to get flights home
However, new evidence shows there was no all-encompassing cloud and, where dust was present, it was often so thin that it posed no risk.
The satellite images demonstrate that the skies were largely clear, which will not surprise the millions who enjoyed the fine, hot weather during the flight ban.
Jim McKenna, the Civil Aviation Authority's head of airworthiness, strategy and policy, admitted: 'It's obvious that at the start of this crisis there was a lack of definitive data.
False alarm? Satellite images have revealed there may never have been a doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the UK (file picture)
The satellite images will be used by airlines in their battle to win tens of millions of pounds in compensation from governments for their losses.
The National Air Traffic Control Service decision to ban flights was based on Met Office computer models which painted a picture of a cloud of ash being blown south from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
Eruption: The Eyjafjallajokull volcano saw flights across Europe grind to a halt and passengers stranded
These models should have been tested by the Met Office's main research plane, a BAE 146 jet, but it was in a hangar to be repainted and could not be sent up until last Tuesday - the last day of the ban.
Evidence has emerged that the maximum density of the ash was only about one 20th of the limit that scientists, the Government, and aircraft and engine manufacturers have now decided is safe.
British Airways chief Willie Walsh always insisted the total shutdown went too far. 'My personal belief is that we could have safely continued operating for a period,' he said.
Mark Tanzer, chief executive of Britain's ABTA, which represents British travel agents and tour operators, said about 100,000 stranded British travellers should have been returned home by Monday morning.
About 35,000 more will remain marooned until Friday, the group said.
'While most flights are back to normal, and most stranded British passengers will be back by the end of this weekend, there is still quite a high level of disruption in some destinations.
'In some areas of the world, there is a significant lack of air capacity to enable British people to be returned quickly,' Tanzer said.
Many Icelandic airports are closed and though authorities say Eyjafjallajokull is now producing much less ash, they confirmed no signs of the eruption ending.
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It's obvious now that the ash cloud hysteria was a hoax, yet it made millions of people frustrated, airlines lost money, and it stoped Obama to go to Poland to attend at the funeral. Nothing new so far, but what was this whole thing for, we can surely asume that it was caused by the usage of HAARP, located in northern Sweden or another 1. Certainly this whole event gave the megalomaniac bankers opportunity to continue their schemes, in the chaos.
ReplyDeleteYes, that was the time period that NATO and the US were conducting airspace NUKE war games from April 12 to April 22 and simultaneously were scheduled over here, but our people raised so much hell over it they cancelled it and changed the location to somewhere else and now its scheduled for May.
ReplyDeleteWhat this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that any third world war with nukes, is being planned and coordinated between the enemies on both sides, and the international bankers and thus, when that first nuke goes off, WE KNOW THEN WHO THE REAL ENEMY IS IN ALL OUR COUNTRIES AND ITS NOT EACH OTHER, ITS ONLY THOSE BANKERS, ROTHSCHILD FAMILY, AND THE TREASONOUS LEADERS OF ALL THE COUNTRIES INVOLVED and the Zionists who benefit the most from it. THAT IS WHO WE GO TO WAR AGAINST IF ONE SINGLE NUKE DROPS. SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE AND LET EVERYONE KNOW.
These games prove its a planned attack since 9-11 was the same way. Its all just a ruse to reduce our population quickly by the billions and to secure control over whoever is left to finalize their total control of this planet with us as slaves. And you can imagine what KIND of slaves we are looking at given all that we have published on here about children, satanism worship, and pedophilia.