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Flying a wreck. >> 25,000 feet later you get the engines back upnd go back to your take off spot and land. in hindsight you might consider they say were cautions in order. >> very much some of the nobody until the incident we had had a concept of what the volcanic ash could do to an airplane. and as a result of our incident they've done a lot of work on plotting every active volcano and when they go off, they are route planes. >> roger grieves, the copilot on that plane. i was a senior in high school in 1982 and they had no idea what was going on with volcanic ash. good to talk to you. glad yo...

Journey. i'll give you a full briefing. >> first, mika, the news. >> let's get a look at today's top stories. we'll start with this situation that affects air travelers around the world. thousands of flights remain grounded throughout northern europe due to a massive cloud of ash from a volcano in iceland. it's the worst disruption in air travel since 9/11. tens of thousands of travelers on six continents are stranded. because the plume of ash is so powerful, it could shut down a plane's engine. the ash cloud is following the winds and weather patterns across the atlantic, which is of course t...