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Topic: UK Airspace Ban, was it justified?  (Read 23 times)

Offline Kai

UK Airspace Ban, was it justified?
« on: 01 May, 2010, 04:00 PM »
Now that UK travel is beginning to settle back to normal and the hassles of getting home are coming to a close what do you think of the UK-wide ban on flying?

With BA stating there was no need to have such a long ban, and that there were no signs of any Ash in their engines during test flights do you think that it was just overboard health and safety at work?  It has caused airlines already on the brink of bankruptcy to lose tens of millions in revenue and has caused untold disruption to the UK population.

Or with the discovery of the Eurofighters having small amounts of ash in their engines, that the government were correct to be cautious, especially as the ash can block engines from working and cause passenger planes to switch off and fall from the sky as seen when one flight a couple of years back had the exact problem and lost engine power for 18 minutes? At the end of the day, it would only have taken the deaths of 200 passengers in an air crash, to cause a huge outcry that the government hadnt done anything!

What do you think?

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Online JediScho

Re: UK Airspace Ban, was it justified?
« Reply #1 on: 16 May, 2010, 01:49 AM »
Now that UK travel is beginning to settle back to normal and the hassles of getting home are coming to a close what do you think of the UK-wide ban on flying?

With BA stating there was no need to have such a long ban, and that there were no signs of any Ash in their engines during test flights do you think that it was just overboard health and safety at work?  It has caused airlines already on the brink of bankruptcy to lose tens of millions in revenue and has caused untold disruption to the UK population.

Or with the discovery of the Eurofighters having small amounts of ash in their engines, that the government were correct to be cautious, especially as the ash can block engines from working and cause passenger planes to switch off and fall from the sky as seen when one flight a couple of years back had the exact problem and lost engine power for 18 minutes? At the end of the day, it would only have taken the deaths of 200 passengers in an air crash, to cause a huge outcry that the government hadnt done anything!

What do you think?

to be fair,its a double edged sword,as if a aircraft had crashed,it would have been a lawyers field day against the companies ,to be fair whilst retrictiobns may have been strict you cant put a price on human safety