When Iceland's Mount Eyjafjallajokull spewed plumes of volcanic ash over Europe in April, the civil aviation industry went into meltdown. Planes were grounded, thousands were stranded and engineers were left scratching their heads.rn'The problem is that everything in this industry moves slowly,' said Charles Champion, Airbus's new engineering chief and the group's latest executive appointment. 'In civil aviation you carry passengers and so if you're confronted with the minimum level of knowledge, you have to be conservative.'
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