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The Canadian airspace was never closed or restricted because of volcanic ash. Although the UK Met Office map of 21 April [115] shows the ash cloud reaching Labrador, Newfoundland, the Maritime provinces, far eastern Quebec, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, concentrations were expected to be sparse. [116]
The ash cloud can be dangerous to aviation if it reaches the heights of aircraft flight paths. Ash cloud from the 2008 eruption of Chaitén volcano stretching across Patagonia from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. Pilots can't see ash clouds at night. Also, ash particles are too small to return an echo to on-board weather radars on commercial ...
Within the advisory the following information will be provided: the name of the volcano, the country/region, location and summit elevation of the volcano, the source of the information, e.g. satellite or pilot observation, details of the eruption including time of day in UTC and date of the eruption, details of the ash cloud including the ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico City International Airport on Tuesday said airlines have canceled 22 domestic and international flights to carry out safety checks after planes encountered ash from ...
The 1,584m volcano on the remote island of Flores has shot billowing columns of ash dozens of times since last Thursday, said Hadi Wijaya, the head of the Center for Volcanology and Geological ...
A volcano on the Alaska Peninsula erupted with little advanced warning over the weekend, spewing an ash cloud up to 20,000 feet high.
However, during the night of 22 March, they reported some volcanic ash fall reaching the Fljótshlíð area (20 to 25 km or 12 to 16 mi northwest of the eruption's location) [19] and Hvolsvöllur town (40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of the eruption location) [19] leaving vehicles with a fine, grey layer of volcanic ash. At around 07:00 on 22 ...
The volcanic ash that could have brought KML Flight 867 crashing into the Talkeetna Mountains traveled 150 miles from the erupting Redoubt Volcano, according to a USGS fact sheet.