Haines has previous experience of dealing with a hugely disruptive crisis. He said: "I left the railway in 2008 and went to the Civil Aviation Authority. And within a few months I was in the middle of an Icelandic volcanic storm. Eyafjallajokull closed airspace across northern Europe.

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In the south, around Kao Hsiung, where many of the training activities of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force are located, the military atmosphere is even more evident.

Or maybe he bumped his noggin when he fell down—after he got clipped on the legs.