Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

“The ash reached twenty-kilometers high; the ash cloud moved westwards and there was a very strong fall of ash on nearby villages... The volcano was preparing for this for at least a year. … and the process is continuing; though it has calmed a little now.”

Source: From a statement by Danila Chebrov, director of the Kamchatka branch of Russia’s Geophysical Survey, discussing the eruption of Russia’s Mt. Shiveluch—one of the vast nation’s most active volcanoes—which has prompted the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team to issue a Code Red warning to flights operating within a one-hundred-thousand-kilometer area surrounding the mountain.

FMI: www.gsras.ru/new/eng/about.htm