False Flag Alert?
Volcanic Ash is supposedly to blame for grounding a significant portion of Air Travel throughout Europe.
All flights in and out of the UK and several other European countries have been suspended as ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland moves south. Up to 4,000 flights are being cancelled with airspace closed in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark among others.
The UK’s air traffic control service (Nats) said no flights would be allowed in UK airspace until at least 0700 BST on Friday amid fears of engine damage.The airspace restriction was the worst in living memory, a spokesman said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8621407.stm
It is an eerie reminder of 9-11 in the U.S., when all commercial planes were grounded. For now the skies are quiet in most of the U.K., except for maybe a fighter jet or two.
Volcanic Ash Plume
Or link to the image here http://www.sat24.com/Eyjafjallajokull-volcano.aspx.
One of the largest NATO military drills is being held today, rather conveniently while volcanic ash is keeping all commercial aircraft on the ground around the U.K. That won’t stop one of the world’s largest military exercises from going forward though.
A large fleet of warships, submarines, frigates and aircraft from 10 NATO countries and one non-NATO member has congregated here to take part in the ‘Brilliant Mariner’ maritime exercise in the Baltic Sea.
The 10-day long multi-nation naval drill began here on April 12, 2010. It will engage the NATO forces to respond to a number of challenges, including asymmetric or terrorist threats, maritime security operations and embargo operations “in a realistic scenario,” a NATO statement said.
The exercise will see participation of 6,500 defence personnel, 31 warships, 28 aircraft and four submarines that will operate in the Northern European waters and airspace.
The French Navy, which is commanding the maritime exercise, has sent 10 of its warships and 30 aircraft.
Its naval fleet includes aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, amphibious warship Mistral, under-attack submarine Emeraude along with other frigates. The aviation fleet includes Mirage fighter aircraft, Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft and Atlantique 2 maritime patrol aircraft along with other planes.
The countries participating in the huge military drill are Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, USA, France, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and Sweden. Sweden, a non-NATO member, is taking part in the exercise as a ‘Partnership for Peace’ country.http://www.brahmand.com/news/NATO-countries-begin-Brilliant-Mariner-naval-exercise/3645/1/10.html
Things are not so quiet in Israel either!
Israel is sending a strong message to Iran, US and the world as it readies itself to undertake military drills to strike Iran’s nuclear sites if it gets green signal in future from its government. Israeli military will prepare itself to launch massive aerial attack to bomb nuclear sites in Iran. The drill also includes civil defense drill to prepare civilians(emphasis mine) for the retaliatory attack from Iran too.
No doubt Israel is making it clear to Iran that in case of any eventuality they can bomb more than dozen nuclear sites and moving convoys in a matter of few days or hours. The on-the-ground preparations, training exercises involving F15 and F16 jets, tankers and helicopters indicate that threat can translate into action.
Israel will need consent from US to carry out such a big operation. Without US intelligence input it would be impossible to get all information about exact locations of nuclear facilities. But by carrying out this drill Israel is showing a kind of preparedness to take on Iran alone. The fate of Middle East crisis now depends on new Israeli government, Obama and Iran. http://trendsupdates.com/israeli-military-drill-to-strike-iran%E2%80%99s-nuclear-sites/
In the U.S. Northcom, Southcom, FEMA, NORAD and other U.S. government agencies were running drills before 9-11, and before the recent Haiti quake just to name a few. Read more coincidences between disasters and drills here https://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/earthquake-tsunami-military-drills-precipitate-catastrophe/.
During a conference, Obama said in response to a question on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that such disputes are “costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure.” http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3876404,00.html
We can only hope Obama does a better job.
While it never made the national news, the U.S. and South Korea were playing war games this week with live ammo:
RODRIGUEZ RANGE, South Korea — The U.S. and South Korean militaries on Thursday staged a large live-fire exercise 15 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone, but officials insisted the event was not meant as a warning to North Korea.
“There is not a message we are sending to any particular audience,” said Col. Thomas C. Graves, commander of the 2nd Infantry Division’s 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team. “The message that comes out of this is the strength of the [U.S.-South Korean] alliance across the board.
“We are doing an integration at the combined arms level — at the tactical level — that probably isn’t seen anywhere else in the world. How the North reacts to this is certainly not something I can predict.”
The exercise came on the birthday of Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s founder and the father of current leader Kim Jong Il — and a day after the Korean Central News Agency reported the recent staging of a major military exercise in North Korea to mark the anniversary. http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=69377
That’s three major military drills going on at the same time in the same week. This week also saw another huge earthquake, a cyclone, major flooding and volcanic eruptions.
Convenient timing, would you say?
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You guys are all idiots!! Its been all over the news they did have videos of the ash cloud and pictures.
What abour propeller planes? Why is it all quiet about them? Most airlines have prop planes! All a con.
What abour popeller planes? Why is it all quiet about them? Most airlines have prop planes! All a con.
I believe there is a big cover up. sure theres a volcano erupting.. great cover story.
What happend two weeks ago in russia . The polish air disaster . I believe either a terroist threat or something else is gong on that they dont want us to know about.
[…] But why has this distant volcano caused so much chaos? At Singleton PR we have heard some wild and imaginative conspiracy theories that the cloud doesn’t even exist… […]
Richard:
“think about where this panic started and who has the most to benefit ?”
This situation is definitely not benefiting ANYONE. No Government official is going to prosper from the inconvenience both the traveling public AND the air carriers are experiencing from this natural occurence.
“Iceland is not geologically a place to produce the kind of Mt. St. Helens huge ashey erruptions.
Most of what is in photos is steam from the melted ice cap and steam from the volcano in the cold air, it looks very dramatic. ”
Apparently the Finnish F18 which was flying in air that appeared mostly clear to the human eye, had its engine damaged from “steam in the cold air” not volcanic ash
Staunch –
This is not the first time airspace has been closed due to volcanic ash, there were closures due to Mt Pinatube in the Phillipines. The problem here is that the path of the ash just happens to affect a great deal of air traffic paths. Even if it is sunny and clear where someone is standing, or even at a particular airport, does not mean that a potential path an aircraft will fly will be safe.
Sandstorms are damaging to turbine engines, true. And thus they are avoided when possible. Sandstorms are at relatively low altitude (considering the range of altitude aircraft fly at) whereas volcanic ash can affect all altitudes from jetstream to surface, leaving much greater chance of exposure to an aircraft
How come this is the FIRST time Airspace has been closed due to a Volcano??? Sand storms can be much worse to Engines but Craft still land in them!
It is very strange so many DRILLS are happening so close, Huge FireBall caught over America Wednesday too, coincidence… hmmmm… hhmmmmmm… HHHMMMMMMMM???!
I THINK NOT!
think about where this panic started and who has the most to benefit ?
it started in the UK
and what is going on right now in the UK ?
an election in a couple of weeks
who is about to lose the election ?
the incumbent (unelected) prime minister mr. brown.
there are also elections in Germany and German leaders are in the pooh for not giving Greece the stick.
suddenly the media is filled with all this travel chaos and nonsense and ok it can be dangerous to fly a plane through a volcanic ash cloud, but look at the facts.
Iceland is not geologically a place to produce the kind of Mt. St. Helens huge ashey erruptions.
Most of what is in photos is steam from the melted ice cap and steam from the volcano in the cold air, it looks very dramatic.
Some ash ok, some places dangerous nearby, but at best this is govt. folks ass covering their cushy jobs… if even one plane crashed because of ash, someone would lose a nice comfortable Govt. paycheck and pension.
At worst its very timely public distraction campaign leading up to the UK and German elections.
What is worse the is pathetic public attitude, I read of car ferries to the UK refusing to let on foot passengers unless they had bicycles, so people were running off to buy bicycles so they could board the ferry…… other stories of the french refusing to let private boats pick people up in france so they can return to the UK across the channel.
This kind of public servant hand wringing, always taking the path of least risk to their nice jobs is just disgusting.
http://home.tiscali.nl/mysteryship/exercises/comingexercises.html
Just look at all these large drills goin` on in Europe at the moment.
Astonishing!
If they were to shut all these airports they would not advertise, would they.
Upcoming Israel drill-
Meanwhile, Israeli daily Maariv that Israeli is preparing to hold the ‘Turning Point 4′ drill at the end of May. This drill would be Israel’s hugest drill ever, meaning it would be bigger than the ‘Turning Point 3′ drill because it would cover the whole enemy’s entity. All local authorities will take part in the drill alongside the Israeli government’s ministries and some sectors that weren’t present at the time of the previous drill. Even more, and for the first time since the second Gulf War, the warning sirens would be launched in all Zionist cities and settlements while institutions and settlers would be trained on how to deal with such urgent situations from inside their homes http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/2010/03/israel-executes-drill-in-gush-dan-to-face-hezbollah-missiles/
According to the Finns, their F-18s flew for about an hour without seeing any sign of the clouds… But even so their engines were heating up due to dust clogging, and examinations after landing internal showed ash coating. No doubt as they days go on people are gonna start saying the risks are minimal and flights should be allowed… But it would only going to take one incident for people to panic like crazy.
http://defpro.com/news/details/14544
Yeah that exercise is very odd.
Israel drill was last year !!! Date on that link is Sunday 19th of April 2009!
Hey Morton… Sunday kisses to you. My father is a mechanical engineer and worked on turbines and jet engines for years. Where do you get your information? From your arse?
For this all to be a “conspiracy”, pretty much everyone in the entire world would have to be playing along. The Americans, the Russians, the Chinese, every pilot in every airline (have you seen one person claiming to be a pilot or engineer anywhere saying this is a conspiracy?)
Yeah, probably the dangers are being ‘exaggerated’ – that is to say scientists and airlines are playing on the side of caution because no-one wants a plane to go down.
A news blackout, GK, how the hell do you get that? There’s nothing else on the feckin’ news.
If this Volcano continues to shut down Europe’s airspace for even 6 months, say goodbye to the European Economy.
So goes the world’s economy if Europe goes. This is potentially the worst natural disaster in modern history.
It’s incredible how few understand its potential impact on the entire world.
Conversly, if it’s true that the Volcano IS NOT causing the downing of all aircraft, then something potentially much deadlier is possibly afoot.
What the heck is going on? Why is there nearly a news blackout?
Yup, reckon this is total BS – just got back from hol in the uk south west and the skies have been the bluest I’ve seen them for years. Something’s afoot. In east asia, this time of year they have vast dust storms – sand blown across from desertifying China – sometimes stops planes flying in and out but this is stuff you can see lots of.
Are any of you pilots of jet aircraft?
have you any actual knowledge or experience of the the safety risk involved with volcanic ash.
Do you realize the high bar that is set for airlines to operate to ensure the safety of the traveling public. To put it simply they are not allowed to operate in any manner that would subject passengers to unnecessary risk.
It is very expensive to shut down operations, but peoples lives are worth more. Until the risk of encountering the ash is minimized, it is not prudent to subject the traveling public.
many here believe the risk is not there. Do any of you realize that a finnish military plane already encountered engine damage from the ash while flying OVER finland?
quotes from news articles:
Source : the vancouver sun
“Finnish fighter jets which flew through the volcanic dust covering much of Europe suffered damage and the air force warned Friday the cloud could have a significant impact on planes”
“The air force F-18 Hornet jets were on training flights in northern Finland on Thursday morning, when airspace was still open, and the engines were later found to contain fine, volcanic ash dust. ”
“Based on the pictures, it was discovered that even short flights in ash dust may cause significant damage to an airplane’s engine,” the Finnish Defence Forces said in a statement.
“The air force would keep a Hawk combat aircraft equipped with a tank to take atmospheric samples on standby to assist civilian authorities as necessary, it said, adding that operative military flights would continue normally. “
Er , ‘contrararian’ , how easy it is to fool you . That British Aiways flight in 1982 flew over a volcano when it was erupting ! Took the paint off ! Iceland is 1000 + Miles from Heathrow airport & i’m in London right now & the sky is PERFECT for flying . sucker .
I’m in the supposed path of said dustcloud and there has been nothing but clear blue sky as far as the eye can see for the last week.
No health warnings, no threat to wildlife, only fucking stranded passengers get the news bulletins – like who gives a fuck.
There has been photo’s of the ash cloud over the Northern UK this week. Published on the BBC news site
As for ahrcanum’s ‘satellite images of the dust cloud’:
http://www.sat24.com/Eyjafjallajokull-volcano.aspx
Those are normal clouds, doofus.
So where is the volcanic ash cloud? Why aren’t there any photos of it?
All we see are photos of the plume of ash directly above the volcano, which is to be expected. Where is the ‘dust cloud’ which is ‘engulfing’ North West Europe?
Baldvin is a right genius, isn’t he…
What “shit” are you talking about? I haven’t seen any photos of it yet. I wonder why that is.
Why aren’t the media showing us hundreds of photos of this ‘deadly’ cloud, which doesn’t actually exist?
What sort of ash can fly 500 miles in the air? How is it suspended? If it’s heavy enough to damage jet engines, it’s too heavy to move very far from the volcano…
It’s blatant bullshit. Where are all the scientists in this? How can a ‘cloud’ of ash that is so thin that you can’t actually SEE it, do any damage to a jet engine?
If it’s too thin to SEE, then the particles themselves must be tiny, extremely spread out, and lighter than air… how else do you think they travel for hundreds of miles.
Result: they cannot damage a jet engine in any way.
Yes we know that the there is a volcano spewing- just seems odd that 3 major military ops going on while 12 or 13 countries have closed airspace.
You guys must be kidding.I suppose you want to take the chance on flying in this shit and kill loads of people.The volcano is erupting.Take my word for it.
What other evidence is there that there was an actual eruption than those photos – that could have been taken anywhere at anytime in any year ?
Four chances to restart the engines – THAT’S why I’m happily sailing on Irish Ferries to Britain and the Continent these days !
LOVELY up on deck too on a golden day .
And you live to remember it all fondly – stuff Airbus , more like flying by CorpseAir 🙂
Not exactly top secret but thanks for the links. I read that one of the problems is than in the event of engine failure that the Airbus only gives you four opportunities to restart the engine and then the computer will shut down taking the plane down with it.
Here is the link for satellite images of the dust cloud at http://www.sat24.com/Eyjafjallajokull-volcano.aspx
It’s likely that the planes taking aerial images are not jets. A turbo prop would be less likely to have an issue as there is no intake of ash particles.
Hmmm… Thru a top secret government informant I was able to obtain these classified satellite pictures.
Volcanic ash did apparently cause major problems with planes in 1982.
Interesting stuff about “Brilliant Mariner”. I did not know that.
this stinks. so many inconsistencies. there was nothing to stop flights to/from most UK airports today, if there is an ash cloud it’s still a long way off.
possibly due to intelligence of terrorist attacks?
I agree that this is some kind of bullshit, but how think are the press/public not to question it, there is fuckall evidence of this ash cloud, and how did the aircraft manage to be able to take pictures of the eruption from directly above without the so called ‘engine failures’, no press can go investigate as they cannot get there, the gorverning bodies have this one totally covered, when are the people of the world going to wake up and stop going along with all this bullshit?
Whether it is these military opperations, i do not know, but i personally believe that it is a bigger cover up than that.
Notice that there are no photographs of this ‘deadly’ ash ‘cloud’ ANYWHERE in the press, other than immediately above the volcano itself – i.e. there IS no ‘cloud’ moving further than a few miles away from the volcano itself, at least, not a VISIBLE cloud, which could actually do any ‘damage’ to aircraft (which is more bullshit).
Yet the idiotic public lap up this crap and would rather die than question it. Where are the satellite photos of this ‘cloud’? Where is it?