PHOTOS: Volcanic ash closes European airports
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Relatives of passengers wave to a Lufthansa airliner taking off for Chicago from Dusseldorf, Germany. German authorities extended the closure of its airspace on Tuesday due to the giant plume of ash from the Icelandic volcano, but some airlines operated flights with special permission. (Volker Hartman / AFP/Getty Images)
Passengers wait for flights out of Barajas airport in Madrid, which has become a hub for fliers as large parts of European airspace remain closed. (Denis Doyle / Getty Images)
A member of the German air-traffic control’s crisis-management team points to a map showing current air-traffic activity during a meeting in Langen, Germany. (Marius Becker / AFP/Getty Images)
A farmer in Iceland clears ash from a goat house at his property near the
The first of three KLM passenger planes headed toward New York takes off from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam after European transport officials allowed some international flights to resume, breaking a flight halt caused by a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland. (Peter Dejong / Associated Press)
Lightning is seen amid the lava and ash erupting from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano as it continues to vent into the skies over Europe. Low-energy lightning can occur during volcanic eruptions. (Jon Pall Vilhelmsson / Associated Press)
Smoke and ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano make their way across a field near Nupur. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)
Ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano covers an evacuted farm near Porvaldseyri. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)
Passengers use camp beds as they wait for the resumption of flights Friday at the Frankfurt airport, the biggest in Germany. Flights there were halted indefinitely as a high-altitude cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland spread farther over Europe. Elsewhere in Germany, flights were grounded at Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Hamburg and Hanover, among other airports. (Torsten Silz AFP / Getty Images)
Ground staff secures plastic over the engine of an aircraft at Belfast City Airport in Northern Ireland, on April 16, 2010. Thousands more flights were canceled around the world Friday as a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland kept airspace across northern Europe closed, inflicting a second day of travel misery on passengers. (Peter Muhly AFP / Getty Images)
Travelers gather inside a terminal at the Roissy
A customs officer plays with his dog in an empty terminal at the Charles-de-Gaulle at Airport outside Paris. The airport has been closed due to clouds of ash resulting from the eruption of the
Passengers gather in front of flight information screens at Roissy
Passengers who arrived in Glasgow on a flight from the Dominican Republic wait in a line to get a transit bus to Gatwick Airport on Friday. A small number of flights in and out of Scotland have resumed as clouds of ash continued to disrupt air traffic across parts of northern Europe for a second day. (Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)
Passengers wait at the departure hall of Frankfurt airport Friday. Clouds of ash resulting from the eruption of the
Passengers wait in an empty terminal at Stansted Airport in Essex, eastern England, on Friday during the continent’s biggest air travel shutdown since
Italian tourists rest in the departure hall of
Travelers crowd in front of the ticket desk of German railway company Deutsche Bahn on Friday at the airport in Frankfurt. Many travelers tried to take the train as an alternative to their canceled flights. (Torsten Silz / AFP / Getty Images)
Victor Delerue, left, Victor Daviet and Julien Mata of France play cards at terminal 4 in Arlanda Airport outside Stockholm on Friday. The three young men were waiting for a flight to Kiruna in northern Sweden, where they are expected to take part in a snowboard movie. The cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano has created chaos in the air traffic system of northern Europe. (Johan Nilsson AFP / Getty Images)
A traffic light signals stop as a plane in the background approaches for landing at the Duesseldorf airport in western Germany. Ash from the volcano under
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An airline passenger rests on his luggage at Gatwick Airport. All British airports were ordered shut, and air traffic was halted over Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, stranding tens of thousands of travelers. Shutdowns and cancellations spread to France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
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A picture taken last month shows tourists gathered at the Fimmvorduhals volcano in Iceland, which is near the site of the latest eruption.
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A sign warns passengers of flight delays and cancellations after
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Airline passengers wait for flights in a departures hall of Glasgow Airport in Scotland.
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Smoke and steam hang over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, which has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. Volcanic ash drifting across the Atlantic has disrupted air traffic across Europe, stranding tens of thousands of passengers.
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- Graphic: Flight hazard
Aircraft grounded by drifting ash spewed by a volcanic eruption in Iceland wait at Northern Ireland’s Belfast City Airport. Across Europe and beyond, tens of thousands of passengers were stranded in one of most disruptive events to hit air travel in years.
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- Volcanic ash closes European airports, stranding tens of thousands of travelers
- Video: Raw footage of the ash cloud
- Graphic: Flight hazard
