Comment Re:From what I've heard, it really is that bad... (Score 0) 673
I lived in Washington state during the Mt. St. Helens eruption. We had to put nylons over our air cleaners to try to keep the ash out of the engine. Alot of engines were destroyed by volcanic ash very quickly during the eruption. The glass comment is very funny and not probable in many areas of the engine due to turbulent airflow. The biggie here is the extremely abrasive nature of volcanic ash. If you fly a jet through vlocanic ash it will most likely destroy the engines. While the plane may not be taken down, enough exposure could possibly cause a crash.
