Icelandic Volcanic Ashes Update: German and Dutch Airlines’ Test Flights
German and Dutch airlines have initiated test flights over the Europe prior to continuing their flight operations. Two airlines have stated that no damage have been incurred by the planes. It was a breaking report that recently Iceland’s volcanic ashes have obliged airports to close its operation due to safety issues.
A plume of ash scattering from Iceland has directed to massive air travel disturbances in the past days, and challenges are getting worse as the cloud broaden south-east across Europe. The volcanic ashes are composed of tiny particles of glass and pulverized rock; this is hazardous in way that planes can loss its power once this particle melts in the engine.
Dutch airline KLM has stated that if the test flights goes on to be favorable, it plans to fly seven planes back to Amsterdam from Germany on Sunday (local time) and acquire authorization to partly resume its business.
KLM stated it flew a two-engine Boeing 737-800 throughout Netherlands at the usual altitude of 10 kilometers, at the maximum 13 kilometers, and at other levels.
“We have found nothing unusual, neither during the flight, nor during the first inspection on the ground,” KLM chief executive Peter Hartman affirmed.
“If the technical examination confirms this image, we are ready tomorrow to fly back our seven planes from Duesseldorf to Amsterdam.
“We then hope to get permission as soon as possible to partially restart our operations and get our passengers to their destinations.”
On the other hand, Germany’s Lufthansa stated it flew 10 planes from Munich to Frankfurt, generally flying at a ‘visual level’ of 3,000 meters while also checking situations throughout the height of 8,000 meters.
“All airplanes have been inspected on arrival in Frankfurt but there was no damage to the cockpit windows or fuselage and no impact on the engines,” stated by Aage Duenhaupt (company spokesman).
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I still don’t understand why military fighter planes do not perform check flights in order to aquire weather condition as long as they are equiped for all weather operations?