RAJAWANG
Padawan Learner
People, the eruption of Mt. Kelud is covered in SOTT
http://www.sott.net/article/273799-Thousands-flee-explosive-eruption-at-Mt-Kelud .
The ash has caused havoc and killed 3 people so far. Air travel was cancelled to and from 5 cities located within 200 km from the eruption. Visibility in most of the airports was minimal, 10 to 20 meters today's morning news. A British Airway 747 was flying through a similar ash from another mountain eruption in 1982, bound for Auckland New Zealand from London when it lost power in all of its 4 engine and had to make emergency landing in Jakarta, narrowly escaping total destruction as the ash also scratched and burned the windshield.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9. I saw a documentary on Flight 9 by National Geographic years ago.
Since then, flying over the ash and clouds from a volcano eruption at any heights is to be avoided at any cost, because the ash can reach great height in the atmosphere (37,000 feet for a 747) and a similar volcano eruption in Iceland made air travel in the world run amok.
Even as I'w writing this, I see the news that Mt. Kelud is still spewing hot lava and shaking ground felt at nearby cities.
Travelling over the Island of Java to and From Australia / New Zealand will be disrupted. By the way, Bali is very close to and many connecting flights to Bali will be cancelled as well.
I sure hope LadyRodgers gets to Bali safely.
http://www.sott.net/article/273799-Thousands-flee-explosive-eruption-at-Mt-Kelud .
The ash has caused havoc and killed 3 people so far. Air travel was cancelled to and from 5 cities located within 200 km from the eruption. Visibility in most of the airports was minimal, 10 to 20 meters today's morning news. A British Airway 747 was flying through a similar ash from another mountain eruption in 1982, bound for Auckland New Zealand from London when it lost power in all of its 4 engine and had to make emergency landing in Jakarta, narrowly escaping total destruction as the ash also scratched and burned the windshield.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9. I saw a documentary on Flight 9 by National Geographic years ago.
Since then, flying over the ash and clouds from a volcano eruption at any heights is to be avoided at any cost, because the ash can reach great height in the atmosphere (37,000 feet for a 747) and a similar volcano eruption in Iceland made air travel in the world run amok.
Even as I'w writing this, I see the news that Mt. Kelud is still spewing hot lava and shaking ground felt at nearby cities.
Travelling over the Island of Java to and From Australia / New Zealand will be disrupted. By the way, Bali is very close to and many connecting flights to Bali will be cancelled as well.
I sure hope LadyRodgers gets to Bali safely.