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European Organization for the Safety cancel 252 flights because of the spread of a cloud of volcanic ash
The European Organization for the Safety of Aviation Eurocontrol canceling 252 flights Tuesday because of crossing the volcanic ash cloud emitted from the Icelandic volcano Grimsfotn over Scotland and Northern Ireland.
"Said Brian Flynn, chief of operations of the organization, headquartered in Brussels on Twitter" Most airlines cancel flights today .252 trip, "adding that" parts of the ash cloud cover Scotland and Northern Ireland today "Tuesday.
"The cloud will pm South Scandinavia, Denmark and some parts of northern Germany."
"They then headed south to cloud up to France and Spain, but it is difficult to predict the time."
He explained that the Barcelona awaiting clarification from the organization Eurocontrol on the direction of the cloud to see if it will be able to participate Saturday in the final Champions League football at Wembley Stadium in London with Manchester United.
And identified three areas of blue and gray and red, to avoid the paralysis of European airspace after the eruption of the volcano Grimsfotn Iceland in April 2010. Earlier, the safety measures required to close the airspace of a country that receives the ash cloud.
And put Scotland in the red zone and Ireland in the blue area.
With the exception of Scotland, Britain's airports were operating normally as announced on Tuesday morning, the British air traffic.
Announced that the Civil Aviation Authority of Ireland that the airspace remains open.
The firm, which operates airports Aveanor Norwegian ash that reached Tuesday morning south-west of Norway, but did not occur immediately, only small defects in the traffic.
The volcano erupted Saturday Grimsfotn which is located on a mountain glacier Vatnaiokol South-East Iceland, is the most active volcanoes in the country where it erupted nine times between 1922 and 2004.
And caused the eruption of the volcano in the formation of a huge cloud of smoke and ash soon reached the height of twenty kilometers to go down before Sunday, between 10 and 15 km of altitude.
