Most flights to & from the UK grounded AGAIN.
As per my intial suspicions - given that plenty of volcano's have erupted in the past 100 years all around the world - that this phenomenon is wholely unnecessary and is being implemented for another far more dubious reason, two associates in avation have confirmed that these new restrictions are ridiculously OTT - the only time these ash clouds bring a risk to planes is of you drive directly over the cloud-forming volcano itself.

What worries me Chris is the total and absolute silence on whether the Libyan air crash was anything to do with volcanic ash; not a hint or a squeak or a suggestion; not even a denial - yet two days earlier all Moroccan airports were closed because of ash; Libya is two small countries further east (Algeria/Tunisia).

The reason I find this lack of mention disturbing is... WHY? Unless something so big is going down that media censorship is in place.

JK you have hit the nail on the head.

Lets look at some "weird stuff"

AIR FRANCE crash(s) 1. No sign of plane for 2 weeks 2. child survives near African crash site

LIBYAN crash 1. No mention of reason 2. child survives

RUSSIA crash 1. All government travelling together 2. All die and Putin does investigation

and

Airspace closes down for 14 days......with no warning

Airspace closing again

plus

Several planes fall out of sky with electrical failures.

FINALLY

David Bowie's FIVE YEARS song - based on a dream his FATHER had which said that no one should fly in planes.......

I TOLD YOU ALL THE "FIVE YEARS" Started in FEB 2008 and will end at the beginning of 2013.

There is something VERY big going on .....

There is the STARGATE in the GULF of ADEN

There are urgent DIGS taking place at the GIZA PYRAMIDS under the Sphinx

There was the attempt to persuade everyone to take a FLU VACCINE for a non existant flu.

Anyone else getting the feeling that SOMETHING IS GOING ON ?

I certainly am - and you dont need to be a CONSPIRACY THEORIST to get the feeling that life has changed totally in the last 2 years.

I definitely heard the BBC reporter say that there were questions about whether the volcanic ash might have been responsible for the crash, although it was only a brief mention.

This web site does touch on the subject. - Weather conditions over Tripoli's international airport were good Tuesday, with three-mile (4.8-kilometre) visibility, scattered clouds at 10,000 feet and winds of only three miles per hour.
A NASA web site said an ash cloud from Iceland's volcano had reached North Africa by Monday, but a map from Britain's meteorological office showed it was well west of Tripoli at the time of the crash.

www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=173200

JK2006 wrote:
Libya is two small countries further east (Algeria/Tunisia).

The reason I find this lack of mention disturbing is... WHY? Unless something so big is going down that media censorship is in place.

Algeria, a small country?? It's massive- look at the map. Morocco is far smaller, and a long way from Libya. It's totally possible for the volcanic clod to have affected Morocco but to have gone nowhere near Libya.

Here is a map:

www.mytravelguide.com/g/maps/North-Africa-map.gif

I know that David but it's not that much further than, say Italy from Spain - yet Italian airspace was affected a few days after Western Spain.

JK2006 wrote:
I know that David but it's not that much further than, say Italy from Spain - yet Italian airspace was affected a few days after Western Spain.

That is of course true,JK. The thing is tho that the cloud is not a uniform sheet (is that English?) but quite irregular in shape. This morning they were saying it is likely to morph into a crescent shape, which would mean that even two places that are geographically close and be affected very differently.

BR wrote:
JK you have hit the nail on the head.

Lets look at some "weird stuff"

AIR FRANCE crash(s) 1. No sign of plane for 2 weeks 2. child survives near African crash site

LIBYAN crash 1. No mention of reason 2. child survives

RUSSIA crash 1. All government travelling together 2. All die and Putin does investigation

and

Airspace closes down for 14 days......with no warning

Airspace closing again

plus

Several planes fall out of sky with electrical failures.

FINALLY

David Bowie's FIVE YEARS song - based on a dream his FATHER had which said that no one should fly in planes.......

I TOLD YOU ALL THE "FIVE YEARS" Started in FEB 2008 and will end at the beginning of 2013.

There is something VERY big going on .....

There is the STARGATE in the GULF of ADEN

There are urgent DIGS taking place at the GIZA PYRAMIDS under the Sphinx

There was the attempt to persuade everyone to take a FLU VACCINE for a non existant flu.

Anyone else getting the feeling that SOMETHING IS GOING ON ?

I certainly am - and you dont need to be a CONSPIRACY THEORIST to get the feeling that life has changed totally in the last 2 years.

you are right BR..Bowie travels by ship everywhere but so would I if I coud afford a stateroom!

I just dose up on valium. How long would it be before the plane hit the ground ?..I need a fast acting drug...maybe a Butt drug.