Airport in Ireland Return Closed

Airport in western Ireland on Friday 7th May 2010 was again closed due to back Iceland volcano produced an ash cloud reached 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) off the west coast of Ireland.

This was announced the Irish Aviation Authority was quoted as saying the AP. Irish Aviation Authority said the shift in the wind that came from the north has been collecting dust in recent days. This collection later formed the ash cloud that continues to expand her every hour.

Europe control, which determines aircraft routes in and around Europe, said the accumulation of ash is a form of new obstacles to navigation. This is because the cloud gradually rose to an altitude 35 000 feet (10 500 feet) and into the cruising altitude of trans-Atlantic flight.

Irish Aviation Authority said the ash that can damage the engine going down the west coast on Friday. This will force the airport did not do a half-dozen flights during the day. However, airports in Dublin, Cork and Waterford in the southwest to the southeast will remain open.

"Limitation is necessary because of increased volcanic activity has recently been creating a huge ash cloud that stretches across 1,000 miles and covering 700 miles," authorities said in a statement.

Eurocontrol, intercontinental air traffic management in Brussels on Thursday also announced plans to change flight routes between Europe and North America in order to avoid the route of flight above the clouds of ash off the west coast of Ireland.

Until Eyjafjallajokul not stopped issuing the ash, the key direction of future crises in Europe ash cloud depends on the prevailing Atlantic winds.

When the wind is blowing to the northeast toward the Arctic that are not inhabited the danger to the aircraft can be minimized, but when the wind switching to the south, as happened this week and mid-April, the ability of airlines for landing and takeoff is dangerous.

Eyjafjallajokul volcano, about 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) northwest of Ireland, showed no signs of stopping since it began belching ash on 13 April 2010. In Iceland, the civil protection authorities said in August Gunnar Gylfason intensive volcanic eruption returned on Wednesday and continued to emit a higher volume of ash the next day, Thursday. He said the maximum height of ash plume that can move height between 20,000 and 30,000 feet.