Airport Near-Miss Caught On Video

Passengers at Barcelona's El Prat Airport had a lucky escape after two planes nearly collided when one flight taxied across the runway as another was coming in to land. The plane eventually landed safely on its second landing attempt.

watch: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/airport-near-miss-caught-video-111502840.html

Subglacial Volcano Eruption Leads to Aviation Red Alert in Iceland

An aviation red alert was issued by Iceland today after a volcano started to erupt with lava flowing under nearly 400 to 900 feet of ice.

The Iceland police announced that the airspace immediately over the Bardarbunga volcano has been closed and the aviation alert was raised its highest level.

The Bardarbunga volcano started erupting under the Dyngjujokull glacier in Iceland around 10:30 a.m. local time today. The Iceland Met Office said the lava eruption is currently small and has not broken through the glacier.

Martin Hensch, volcano seismologist with the Icelandic Met Office, said small earthquakes have affected the area throughout the day. The largest was around 5.0 on the Richter scale.

While the eruption is relatively small so far, Hensch said there's a chance it could grow and break through part of the glacier, causing a significant steam explosion

"It's completely unpredictable at the moment," Hensch told ABC News.

The unstable eruption has led government officials to evacuate the national park where the volcano is located. Nearby neighborhoods have been alerted that they might have to leave suddenly in the case the eruption melts enough ice that it causes a flood.

"The moment [lava] hits the ice it instantly melts it at high amounts. Then you get glacier outburst flooding and that's the concern regionally," Hensch said.

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PHOTO: Here is a map from the Civil Aviation Authorities (ISAVIA) showing the area defined as danger area closed for instrument flight rules (IFR) due to a potential eruption in northern Vatnajökull glacier.

News of the eruption has also worried aviation officials across the globe. The eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in 2010 disrupted European air space for days, because the plume was so thick it was unsafe for planes to fly through it. More than 100,000 flights were canceled as a result of the eruption.

Hensch said scientists do not know if this eruption would create a volcanic plume as large or as disruptive as the one in 2010.

ABC News aviation expert John Nance said that after Eyjafjallajokull's eruption airlines and aviation authorities in Europe created a cooperative network of radar that could allow them to more effectively track volcanic plumes.

"The fact was before it caught everyone by surprise," said Nance. "Since then the European air traffic authority, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland all of them have a cooperative structure and contingency plans for what to do."

With the new radar networks, there's a chance that more airplanes could continue to fly during an eruption, as long as they can avoid the plumes, Nance said.

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Iceland has issued an aviation red alert for the Bardarbunga volcano, meaning significant ash emissions are likely. Airlines fear a repeat of the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption which grounded thousands of flights and left millions of passengers stranded 

Shell Aviation redesigns lubricants packaging

August 15, 2014 by General Aviation News Staff Leave a Comment

Shell Aviation revealed new product packaging for piston engine oils at this year’s Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture Oshkosh.

”The reason for the change of the packaging is simple – we’ve listened to customers and they told us that they wanted our products to stand out and be easy to identify,” said Amjad Shahabuddin, Global Marketing Manager, Shell Aviation Lubricants. “I believe we have really delivered on that while keeping the product names and formulations the same. “

The AeroShell lubricants portfolio’s new look introduces the label with a circular design, Shell red packaging, clear display of product names on labels and each product family given its own color to easily identify the contents while standardizing its packaging sizes, explained Shahabuddin.

The transition will happen globally. New packaging of the piston engine oils started earlier this year and the introduction of the new packaging for turbine engine oils, greases and fluids will occur in the second half of 2014 and into 2015.

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has made a change to its online flight planning member benefit. Starting in 2015, AOPA will return to the AOPA Internet Flight Planner (AIFP) powered by Jeppesen, retiring the current flight planner,

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has made a change to its online flight planning member benefit. Starting in 2015, AOPA will return to the AOPA Internet Flight Planner (AIFP) powered by Jeppesen, retiring the current flight planner,

Concorde introduces heated batteries for cold weather ops

Cold temperatures increase the internal resistance, which decreases a battery’s capacity and slows its ability to accept charge current. For years, operators in cold climates have made it a practice to endure the inconvenience of removing batteries from aircraft, transporting and...

WHO declares air travel safe despite fears over Kenya Airways flights to West Africa

WHO declares air travel safe despite fears over Kenya Airways flights to West Africa