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"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain...
dangers of volcano eruptions for aircraft but in both cases the aircraft suddenly found themselves in dense ash clouds while in direct proximity to fire-spewing mountains where the concentration of hard particles was the highest.At a considerable distance from a volcano, the ash concentration in the air falls off by many orders of magnitude, and such a large-scale closing of air space in Eurasia, following the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallojokull, is more reminiscent of hysteria than a real assessment of danger.
Seen against this background, the quiet operation of Russia"s Aeroflot, which continues its flights despite any volcanoes, is worth noting.
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik)
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