Volcanic eruption disturbs air traffic over Iceland
At least four major international airports of Iceland were closed down on Sunday after the country?s one the major volcano, Grimsvotn, erupted on Saturday.
The plume of smoke and ash that had risen to 12 miles distance into the atmosphere had even forced the authorities to cancel several domestic flights on Sunday.
However, experts said the ash will not disrupt the air traffic so much this time.
Speaking on the eruption, Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland, told The Daily Telegraph: “Much bigger and more intensive than Eyjafjallajokull, but that the disruption would not be as widespread as last year because there was not as much wind to spread the ash.?
The Daily Telegraph quoted, Eurocontrol, Europe’s air traffic control organisation, as saying: “There is currently no impact on European or transatlantic flights and the situation is expected to remain so for the next 24 hours. Aircraft operators are constantly being kept informed of the evolving situation.”
Grimsvotn, located ?beneath the Vatnajokull glacier on the South-East Iceland, ?erupted on Saturday ushering the authorities to close down the airports on Sunday.
In 2010, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokul volcano had disrupted the air traffic quite?significantly.
Large number of travellers were stranded in various airports of Europe last year and also as many as ?63,000 flights from the 23 European countries were cancelled for the volcanic eruption.
