British airports close due to drifting ash from Iceland’s erupting volcano
By APThursday, April 15, 2010
UK airports close due to ash from Iceland volcano
LONDON — Airports in Scotland have shut down due to ash from Iceland’s spewing volcano as it erupts for the second time in less than a month.
Hundreds in Iceland have fled rising floodwaters around the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier.
Airports in the Scottish cities of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh were closed Thursday and flights from the English city of Birmingham and from Belfast in Northern Ireland were also affected.
U.K. airport operator BAA says “major disruption” in air traffic is expected.
The National Air Traffic Service says airspace has been restricted because “volcanic ash represents a significant safety threat to aircraft.”
The volcano erupted Wednesday.
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