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Paris Update: Our trip may be canceled because of recent volcano activity in IceLand, and because I do not want my pilot to pull an Ace Ventura to land the plane:
In another incident in the 1980s, a British Airways 747 flew into a dust cloud and the grit sandblasted the windscreen. The pilot had to stand and look out a side window to land safely.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/14/international/i010722D73.DTL#ixzz0lCPHIDGf