-thorsten Thu 04/15/10 6:45 PM:
Sitting here in europe right now with the airports closed down because a cloud of black smoke left The Iceland. I just missed my Ajira to Guam.
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A car drives through the ash cloud from the volcano eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, Friday April 16, 2010. The volcano erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice and shooting smoke and steam into the air. Flights around the world have been canceled and passengers stranded. (AP Photo/Omar Oskarsson)[ Latest results for ' iceland ' Pause ]
twitter 6 min ago: -Ticked off at Iceland right now because you can't fly? Put this in your pipe and smoke it: Alaska Daily News: Iceland volcano recalls near tragedy of airliner over Alaska - adn.com/2010/04/17: VOLCANO'S ASH KILLS 747'S ENGINES Pilot restarts them, lands jet safely after fall of more than two miles en route to Anchorage
Editor's note: With the ash cloud from the Iceland volcano shutting down air traffic across much of Europe, a 1989 near-disaster in Alaska has been cited repeatedly in recent days as an example of what can happen when volcanic ash is sucked into jet engines.
Here's the Daily News' story about the near-crash of a KLM jumbo jet from the next day. This story was originally published on Saturday, Dec. 16, 1989.
Fresh air at last. The border between day & night along Iceland volcano. ~on TwitpicAlternate Transportation Takes a New Meaning
Wall Street Journal - 7 minutes ago
The volcano, located under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, has caused the biggest shutdown of European airspace since World War II when its ash ...
ytube: Footage released of erupting Icelandic volcano [1:36 posted 4/15/10]
Katla is a volcano in Iceland, situated to the north of Vík í Mýrdal & to the east of the smaller glacier Eyjafjallajökull ..
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