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To flame out. there are a couple of well documented cases 747st flew through and lost all four engines and got them started after they fell. >> neil: there was the flight from malaria to australia. >> that's right. >> they restarted those but it could have been bad, right? >> it could have been dreadful of the other thing is, if you fly into this, it can scour the wind screen. this was a case where the pilots could not see out of the wind screen but it was so badly pitted and had to land almost blind. there are a lot of problems that take place and if you've gone into it, then you've really go...

Fail. >> another problem with shutting down. that's a huge problem but compound that with the fact you get all this into the windshield, you can't see. it's like pockmark in a sandstorm, right? >> it can damage fuselage, pit the wind screen like that. the thing, though, to keep in mind about this is that the system here, although it is horrible for travelers on the ground, is actually working really well. nothing has happened to a plane by virtue of this otherwise huge explosion. there are what are called volcanic ash advisory centers, nine of them around the world, that keep flights from flyi...