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European airlines send up test flights despite ash
(AP) -- Several major airlines safely flew test flights without passengers over Europe on Sunday despite official warnings about the dangers of a volcanic ash plume, fueling a corporate push to end an economically ...
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Apr 18, 2010 |
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New ash studies needed to 'limit air traffic chaos'
Better research models of how ash is dispersed would greatly reduce the air traffic havoc wreaked in Europe since an Icelandic volcano began spewing a giant cloud of the toxic dust last week, an expert said ...
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Apr 18, 2010 |
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Satellite data improve aviation safety
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thousands of planes are grounded across Europe due to the spread of volcanic ash following the recent eruption under Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull glacier. Volcanic eruptions eject large amounts ...
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Apr 16, 2010 |
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Travel chaos as cloud of ash drifts over Europe (Update 2)
(AP) -- Volcanic ash sifted down on parts of northern Europe on Friday and thousands of planes stayed on the tarmac to avoid the hazardous cloud. Travel chaos engulfed major European cities and the U.N. warned ...
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Apr 16, 2010 |
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Volcanic ash affects airplanes, weather, sunsets
(AP) -- In 1989, all four engines of a Boeing 747 over Alaska conked out after it flew into a cloud of volcanic ash. The crew was able to restart them, but incidents like that dramatize why hundreds of flights ...
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Apr 15, 2010 |
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Iceland's volcanic ash halts flights across Europe
(AP) -- Ash clouds from Iceland's spewing volcano disrupted air traffic across Northern Europe on Thursday as authorities closed British and Nordic air space, shut down Europe's busiest airport at Heathrow ...
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Apr 15, 2010 |
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Alaska's Mount Redoubt spews ash 50,000 feet high
(AP) -- Alaska's Mount Redoubt has erupted again, spewing an ash cloud 50,000 feet up into the air.
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Mar 28, 2009 |
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Alaska volcano erupts twice, sends ash 12 miles up (Update)
(AP) -- Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted several times Thursday, spewing a more than 12-mile-high cloud that could drop ash on Anchorage for the first time since the volcano began erupting Sunday night.
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Mar 26, 2009 |
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