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Impact of Icelandic Volcano seen on live air traffic

April 15, 2010 | News & Reviews | Gary Hartley | 2 Comments »

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Today all of the UK’s major airports grounded flights in and out due to a volcanic ash cloud from the Icelandic erupting volcano Eyjafjallajökull. The impact of this can be seen visually on the Live Air Traffic website flightradar24.com. What would have been frenzied airway activity over England and Scotland has now been replaced my an eerie silence and clearance of planes. The yellow plane icons represent planes currently in flight, the blue crosses represent closed airports.

Impact of Icelandic Volcano seen on live air traffic

Icelandic Volcano grounds UK flights

Twitter buzz

Follow the hashtag #ashtag on Twitter to see the current buzz surrounding this event.

Pictures of Iceland Volcano Eyjafjallajökull

This Flickr set of Eyjafjallajökull shows the velocity of the eruption.

Volcano in Iceland pictures

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Videos of Iceland Volcano Eyjafjallajökull

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2 Responses so far

  1. Becky Says:
    April 15th, 2010 at 12:20 pm

    Odd … seems that north of Leeds there are no airports?


  2. Gary Hartley Says:
    April 15th, 2010 at 12:31 pm

    To people in the south we don’t even have roads :)




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