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| May 17, 2010 | Volcanic ash makes Kingfisher, Air India cancel flights to London | | Mumbai: With the closure of London's Heathrow Airport and Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport due to the drifting of volcanic ash from Iceland, Kingfisher Airlines and Air India reportedly on Monday cancelled all its flights to London. "Having assessed the current information received from
Eurocontrol, and the trends indicating anticipated closure of the airspace over
London Heaththrow airport due to fresh contamination of volcanic ash, the airlines
has cancelled its flights to and from London airport," said Kingfisher spokesperson.
It has been reported that Air India has rescheduled its flights and a final call
would be taken later in the day. Volcanic ash consists of small tephra, which
are bits of pulverized rock and glass created by volacanic eruptions, less than
2 millimetres in diameter. There are three mechanisms of volcanic ash formation:
gas release under decompression causing magmatic eruptions; thermal contraction
from chilling on contact with water causing phreatomagmatic reuptions, and ejection
of entrained particles during steam eruptions causing phreatic eruptions. The
violent nature of volcanic eruptions involving steam results in the magma and
solid rock surrounding the vent being torn into particles of clay to sand size.
Volcanic ash can lead to breathing problems and malfunctions in machinery, and
clouds of it can threaten aircraft and alter weather patterns.
Sources in the Union Home Ministry on Monday feared that the casualties of the IED blast in
Chhattisgarh's Dantewada is likely to go high as the rescue and relief operations have been
hampered due to bad light. Security forces have launched a major rescue operation. On
Monday evening in one of the worst attack on civilians the Maoists blew up a private bus
killing over 30 people. The bus was on its way from Dantewada to Sukma when the incident
took place near Chingawaram, over nine kilometers from Sukma. The bus-CG17 SS 9295
was carrying 20 special police officers (SPO) and over 30 civilians.The SPOs were
on their way to participate in a special recruitment drive. The latest blast incident
has taken place a day after the Maoists called for a 48 hour shutdown in five
states-Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. The sources
said the attack might have been a pre -planned one. Reportedly, the Maoists also
fired on the bus after the blast to ensure that nobody stays alive. | |
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