Maybe they didn't need to ban flying ~ but certainly providing customers with an informed picture of the risk might well have seen NO ONE getting on board those planes!
It's like this ~ let's say that every 20 trips your vessel blows up and everybody is killed (thinking of Shuttle trips).
That's a risk you might be willing to take for science, but for trips to the 7-11 to buy beer?
I’m from Oregon. People fly through clouds thicker than this most days of the winter.
What’s your point?
There only plane was unavailable because it needed painting. Unfortunately, resources for prevention and research are rare and scant. When our vulcanologists went to monitor Pinatubo and advise our Air Force they took all our available monitoring equipment and it still was not enough. Furthermore, there was no equipment left to monitor any volcano problem that might have arisen in Latin America. This after 23,000 people will killed in Armaro. There is a lot to complain about where govt. is concerned, but lack of capacity to warn of real dangers should not be one of them.
Good link to a forum for aviation people, mostly pilots I think. I found it a few days ago and have been reading the ash thread. Most of it is way too technical for me but I have learned some things. They have a very long thread about the ash, and other threads such as the Polish crash.
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news-13/
We don't have to ignore it, because as we are flying we can see it and fly around it.
In the early '70's Iceland had a similar volcano. As a pilot we could see it, fly around it without a problem. This is just more of the political BS.
What is wrong with just following standard VFR’s?
Staying clear of the clouds is easy.
This is an example of clueless idiots in charge. There is always some risk to everything. The only way to eliminate all risk is to kill yourself.
But they did.
but certainly providing customers with an informed picture of the risk might well have seen NO ONE getting on board those planes!
But they didn't do that.
I am wondering if there were significant planes grounded when Mt. Pinatubo erupted? I don’t recall hearing about it.