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Iceland cloud closes airports Germany
Announced that the German air safety authorities closed airports and airports in the country north of the capital Berlin in the east, and disrupted a portion of flights at airports in the state of North Rhine West, because of the arrival of the ash cloud emitted from a volcano in Iceland Grimsfotn to German airspace.
The secret decision to close the airspace air airports of Bremen and Hamburg at the fifth and sixth on Wednesday morning until five in the afternoon, and on the Berlin airport of first ten am to nine o'clock pm the same day, and is expected to issue another decision to close the airport Hannover adjacent to the Berlin airport to Lübeck in the East because the passage of the path of movement of ash cloud that the two cities.
The Minister of Transport German Peter Ram Sauer that the closure of a number of airports in the country came as a result of exceeding density cloud of ash with international standards of aviation safety, and pointed out that an aircraft is moving in such a climate prone to stop fans engines and falling, the minister said in remarks to the second channel in the German television that the airports German is now able to deal with the fallout cloud, well, thanks to the experience gained from dealing with cloud ice volcano Mount Eyjafjallajökull Iceland last year.
The path of the cloud
He did not specify the German Minister of Transportation and how long the closure of airports in the country because of the ash cloud, and pointed out that this depends on the weather and the speed and direction of movement of the cloud.
Disrupted flight movements in Europe a year ago because of the volcano, Iceland (French - Archive)
The Meteorological Agency, the German Icelandic volcano cloud arrived at dawn to the atmosphere of the country is expected to change on Thursday, the path of movement towards and from Scandinavia to Ireland and South Ireland and North Britain.
Predicted by the Meteorological German not continue the closure of airports in Germany and Europe for a long time by the movement of ash cloud current paths low as a result of density and weight of big, and alerted the Commission that "the cloud of volcano Mount Eyjafjallajökull ice Iceland suspended in April last year, air traffic for a long time, because of its ability movement and flight paths are high thanks to their light weight and intensity. "
Did not provide the Hamburg airport - which is witnessing daily 450 flight landings and take offs - any data the number of flights affected by the decision to close, and provided management of the airport, which is the second air port, Germany, hundreds of family, blankets and quantities of food for the unemployed within the passenger halls.
He advised the airports Tegel and Hunhvild travelers to obtain advance information on their flights through Internet and telephone, and announced that German airline Lufthansa canceled 150 flights destined for its domestic airports north of the country and to the airports of Berlin.
Did not affect the ash cloud coming from Iceland heavily on the movement of landing and take off Frankfurt airport because of its distance from the path of movement of the cloud, and canceled the management of the airport - the workbook as the largest airport in Germany - 16 flight to the airports of Berlin.
Damage and Research
The volcano ash cloud Grimsfotn until Tuesday had caused the cancellation of more than five hundred flights within Europe, and influenced heavily on travel and air transport in Britain and the Scandinavian countries.
The European Commission aviation safety has been left for each European country to take what it deems appropriate for the closure of airspace, in the same context, the Assembly German Air and Space is a number of experts in the fields of physics and meteorology to Iceland to examine the ash cloud emitted from the volcano exploding there.
