Iceland warned of volcano danger to planes “for years”

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Kennelijk hebben 'de betere' Air Traffic Controllers de uitnodiging van
de IJslanders, om te komen trainen voor vulkaanuitbarstingen, wel
aangenomen.

Groet / Cees

Iceland warned of volcano danger to planes “for years”
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/04/25/iceland-warned-of-volcano-danger-to-planes-for-years/
Posted on25 April 2010.

Icelandic air traffic control has often warned of the potential impact
to international aviation of a volcanic eruption in Iceland; but despite
this, European airlines and controllers continue to say that nothing
could have predicted that an Icelandic volcano would have such a massive
impact on aviation.

Norway’s Aftenposten newspaper spoke to Icelandic air traffic controller
Egill Thordarson who said that volcanic ash training exercises have been
taking place in Iceland four times a year for the last decade and
British and Norwegian teams have joined in on more than one occasion.

Thordarson told Aftenposten that the exercises have consistently proven
the potential danger of volcanic ash to aeroplanes and said he has been
sending out regular weather updates to European colleagues concerning
volcanic activity in Iceland for the last two years.

The journal of Norwegian pilots, Flygelederen, published a six page
article on the dangers of an Icelandic eruption in December last year.

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