[glorgau]

Mistakes like this should bring down governments.

[AnAmericanMother]

Better governments than airplanes. Or airlines, after they're hit with multiple wrongful death suits alleging negligence in failing to ground the fleet.

My dad was a specialist in aviation disaster litigation back in the day.

The safety margin is not all that wide when you're talking about debris in the air. Sometimes you have to make a judgment call, and people are only screaming about being stuck abroad because we didn't have multiple engine failures from ingestion of ash.

[old republic]

Mistakes like this should bring down governments.

It just might. There is a general election next week. And lets just say the Labour government isn't looking forward to it.