>Volcano erupts in Indonesia
>Locals don't notice because they have shit weather radar
>747 flies through the dust cloud
>All 4 engines get filled with volcanic ash and burn out
>"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
>Spend 12 minutes gliding, dropping 23,500 feet in the process
>The pilots are preparing to be the first 747 ever to attempt a water landing
>Finally one of the engines restarts
>But ILS is offline
>Windscreen is completely opaque due to ash, no way to clean it
>Manage to land running entirely on instruments
>Fatalities: 0
>Injuries: 0
Survivors: 263
And that's how pilots learned to never fly around an erupting volcano and several years back all air traffic in Europe was halted when a volcano with an unpronounceable name in Iceland had a bad moment.
That was shortly after their economy crashed. I remember people saying that the last wish of Iceland's economy was to have its ashes spread across Europe.
Hey, it is easy to spell how Icelanders pronounce it in my native language:
Eyyafyatlayakötül
Islandmountainglacier. Got it. Why didn't they say that in the first place?
On an island full of mountain glaciers, it does make you wonder how they came up with that name.
The others have names like "rock flake", "old hag", "cloak", "broad shoulders", "Erik's "glacier" and "baldric's bump" from what I can quickly find. It seems they gave up with the Islandmountainglacier.
MorningLightMountain
Good thing they're pretty isolated over there then
Baldric's got a bump that looks just like a turnip
The rest of them have names like "NoNotThatIslandMountainGlacierTheOtherOne"
Or a cognate, Eyfallicle; ey as in island, fall as in a valley(?), icle from icicle.
Mér líkar þetta málið!
Catch a throatful from the fire vocal With ash and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull
When talking about things in Iceland, the u pronounceable part can be safely assumed. You only need to clarify if it can be pronounced.