BA Flight Test in the Central Volcanic Ash
Liputan6.com, London: British airline British Airways (BA) flight experiment on Sunday (18 / 4). A spokesman for BA admitted, during a trial flight, the Boeing 747 had no difficulty through the ashes with due regard to flight safety. The jet was flying from London Heathrow Airport to cross the Atlantic Ocean for nearly three hours, before finally returning to Cardiff, UK.
"The conditions are perfect and the aircraft had no difficulty. Now BA will undergo a full technical analysis in the BA engineering base in Cardiff," said a BA spokesman. "Initially BA airborne at an altitude of 10,000 feet (3000 meters), then increased again as much as 5,000 feet to 15,000 feet, and increased again to 40,000 feet (12,000 meters), which can last for an hour."
In addition to carrying two pilots and the chief executive of BA, the aircraft was successfully brought the Director of Flight Operations and General Manager of BA Engineering experiments on these flights. This flight experiment is intended to collect data about the presence of volcanic ash in UK airspace, "said a BA spokesman told AFP. Earlier, the Dutch airline company, KLM, reckless conduct first test flight from Duesseldorf Airport, Germany to Schiphol Airport, Netherlands , Saturday (17 / 4) [read: desperate, KLM aircraft flew from Germany]. (AFP / AST / Job)