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A traveler at Beijing International Airport looks out at planes stranded due to thick fog, which caused widespread travel disruption
December 5th, 2011
09:32 AM ET
Authorities cancel flights as haze shrouds Beijing
Thick air shrouding Beijing forced authorities to cancel flights and close expressways, state media reported Monday.
The Beijing Capital International Airport canceled 56 departing flights and delayed dozens of others Monday morning, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.
State media offered conflicting descriptions of what caused the haze.
"Smog disrupts flights at Beijing airport," a headline from the Xinhua news agency said. The state-run China Daily newspaper, citing Beijing's weather officials, said melting snow made the air wet and caused heavy fog that "crippled traffic, delayed flights and created obstacles in the highways in many places of North China since Saturday."
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JUST WHAT WE NEED TO AVOID.. another hazing... hazing is dangerous.
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/maximum-visibility/
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My first thought was Ruffie was in Beijing having *too* good a time...
Reblogged this on Gravity7.
Come on.....We had the same problem at LAX some 30 to 40 years ago. Fog, Smog and particulate matter in the air.........when only a few aircraft could safety use the airport. Those equipped with certain NAVAIDS. China has it's problems, but in time, they will set up measures to abate visible pollution.It took some 300 years for us to get where we are today energy wise..The Chinese can't get there in 30. Especially with their turbulent past.
LA cleaned up its smog problem due to extremely strict environmental controls. Avionic systems have been around since the early 70's so your theory really isn't valid. China has a severe pollution problem as indicated by their govt's decision to shutdown most manufacturing and restrict car usage during the 2008 Olympics. But hey... the republicans think we should get rid of the EPA because it's a job killer. I guess we should be more like China? Clean air, water and land be damned.
If anyone wants to know what an industrialized country will look like without the EPA and OSHA, look at China.
As for aviation, a CAT 3 system allows landings in zero visibility, but China does not have the infrastructure and training to operate to those standards. they have to stop takeoffs at 400 meters visibility, and landings have to top at anywhere from 550 to 800 meters at best. The smog problem will only get worse as production ramps up for the global economic recovery.
It has been bad breathing for a while, and foggy! Look at these pictures from November and see how it started:
http://www.ab9il.net/avgallery/china-smog.html
They deserve better, the people over there in that murky air.
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