[MedicalConspiracies] Daily Mail UK News: Remember that ashcloud? It didn't exist, says new evidence.

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Remember that ashcloud? It didn't exist, says new evidence.
By Sean Poulter
Apr 26, 2010 - 3:45:33 PM


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)
'It's also true that for some of the time, the density of ash above the UK
was close to undetectable.'

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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