A volcano that has been dormant for almost 200 years has erupted in Iceland, reaking havoc with airspace, no flights are alowed to enter or leave british airspace because of the ash being blown towards us, and if any of you have been in a car on a extremly dusty road or during a dust storm you will know that when the air enters the engine it clogs everything up and suddenly you have no engine. Thankfully we on the ground are safe since the ash is so high up, air travel could be doomed for days, months, or possibly years.
Thousands of flights were canceled, stranding tens of thousands of passengers, and officials said it was not clear when it would be safe enough to fly again.
“At the present time it is impossible to say when we will resume flying,” said Henrik Peter Joergensen, the spokesman for Copenhagen’s airport in Denmark, where some 25,000 passengers were affected.
The ash plume, which rose to between 20,000 feet and 36,000 feet (6,000 meters and 11,000 meters), lies above the Atlantic Ocean close to the flight paths for most routes from the U.S. east coast to Europe. With the cloud drifting south and east across Britain, the country’s air traffic service banned all non-emergency flights until at least 7 a.m. Friday. Irish authorities closed their air space for at least eight hours, and aviation authorities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Belgium took similar precautions
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for about three weeks <-O . Ok more news, I’m going to be doing a complete redesign of my blog, and possibly the main site as well. But, don’t expect anything soon, because it might take a while.