{"id":1458,"date":"2010-04-15T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T13:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2010-04-15T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T13:52:28","slug":"airspace-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1458","title":{"rendered":"Airspace closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just like after 9\/11, the airspace of an entire region is closed today, grounding thousands of flights in the UK and Northern Europe.<\/p>\n

Unlike on 9\/11, this time around the closure is not the result of the panicked, knee-jerk reaction of clueless politicians and officials. It is the result of a volcanic eruption in Iceland:<\/p>\n

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The plume, clearly visible in this Eumetsat<\/a> image, is a grave threat to aviation. 28 years ago, volcanic ash almost brought down a British Airways 747<\/a> full of passengers, and since then, numerous airliners have been damaged as they flew through similar plumes. Grounding all flights in the affected areas seems like a dramatic, but justified response to a very real threat.<\/p>\n

Now the question is this: how long? According to news reports, the eruption shows no signs of abating. Will they keep flights grounded for days, even weeks if necessary?<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just like after 9\/11, the airspace of an entire region is closed today, grounding thousands of flights in the UK and Northern Europe. Unlike on 9\/11, this time around the closure is not the result of the panicked, knee-jerk reaction of clueless politicians and officials. It is the result of a volcanic eruption in Iceland: […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-weather","category-37-id","category-34-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}