The airport will remain open and despite the movement of the ash cloud along southern Europe, most of the airports on the continent were not closed today, apparently due to the thinness of the cloud in these areas
A third eruption from the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano produced a cloud 1,600 kilometers wide on May 6. In the meantime, the ash spread south and covered the entire latitude south of the Alps to northern Italy and from there it turned south towards the Mediterranean Sea and then east towards Israel.
On the Six program with Oded Ben Ami on Channel 2, this evening the chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority, Major General Giora Rom, said that the forecast relied on by the meteorological service originated from computer models of the British Meteorological Service, which was falsified after a few hours, when it turned out that the eastern edge of the cloud had dissipated over Italy And they did not reach the eastern Mediterranean. In light of this assessment of the situation, it was decided that Ben Gurion Airport will remain open. According to him, the only no-fly zone is the area between Ireland and Iceland, and large parts of the Atlantic Ocean.
Even if they reach our areas and float at a high altitude, the particles should not come close to the ground so that they do not cause health problems, at least not to the same extent as the desert dust that reached us during the drought that prevailed in the country in recent days.
The volcano erupted for the first time on March 20, and again in April, when it caused the shutdown of flights in large areas of Europe, including Heathrow in London, Charles de Gaulle in Paris and Frankfurt in Germany, which are among the five busiest airports in the world. Also this week, airports in Ireland, Great Britain, Spain, France, Italy, the Adriatic Sea countries, Germany and Switzerland were closed alternately. Today, as already mentioned, they were all open.
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More on the topic of volcanic ash on the science website
- The aviation hysteria: 90 planes were damaged by ash, until it was decided to stop flying through the volcanic ash clouds
- Not far from the volcano in Iceland, an island was born in a volcanic eruption about 50 years ago
- Volcanic ash is like "hard rain"
- The European Space Agency photographed the ash cloud covering Europe
