Ryanair said its 90-minute flight at 41, 000ft showed there was "no visible volcanic ash cloud or evidence of ash on the airframe, wings or engines".
Sad to say the ash was no longer lodged in my memory banks when news first broke of this new threat to our woodland.
Beginning March 1, no hardwood firewood, ash nursery stock or untreated ash lumber will be allowed outside Berkshire County, where the emerald ash borer was found last summer in trees in Dalton, a few miles from the New York border.
The UK is enduring a fourth day as a virtual no-fly zone, as the travel chaos caused by volcanic ash drifting from Iceland shows no sign of ending.
No one denies that volcanic ash can cause jet engines to fail in flight.
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While most of the freight will have been flown straight on from last weekend's season-opener in Qatar, the cloud of ash has created a no-fly zone over much of northern and central Europe and made it impossible for many team personnel to reach Japan.
There is no hint of brick-dust whatsoever beneath Ash's well-shaped finger nails.
The Suffolk Coastal MP has expressed disappointment that her constituents have been given "no advice" on what to do with ash trees on their land.
The coal ash sector, however, says that no mater what, the industry will be tainted.
Martin Dockrell, director of research and policy at the campaign group Action on Smoking and Health (Ash), acknowledges that there is no clear evidence of a significant harm to health from second-hand outdoor tobacco smoke.
Campaign group No Oulton Turbine said 342 mature trees, including oak, ash, sweet chestnut, rowan and Corsican pines, covering three-quarters of an acre, had been felled.
The institute doesn't expect additional volcanic activity soon, though steam may appear, ash may be ejected and rocks may fall "suddenly with little or no warning, " it said.
Eurocontrol, the European air traffic management organization, sees no impact on the European mainland for now, but shifting winds may carry the ash cloud to parts of Scotland and Ireland within the next 24 hours.
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Organisations including Ash Wales and the British Heart Foundation told AMs that they believed there was no justification for lifting the ban in Wales and that alternative means could be found of filming smoking scenes, including artificial cigarettes and computer generated imagery (CGI).
But the no-fly zone still applied to most of Britain, and a new cloud of volcanic ash was reported to be on its way.
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