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    The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption in Iceland ejected ash that damaged aeroplane engines, causing the largest shutdown of flights since 1945 and stranding over a million passengers worldwide. The ash cloud was tracked, closing airspace over major travel destinations in Spain, Italy and Germany until May 17th. The eruption sent silica and ash particles rapidly into jet streams, spreading the particles and forcing many airlines to shutdown over an 8 day period, costing the airline industry £1.1 billion as over 107,000 flights were cancelled.

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    The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption in Iceland ejected ash that damaged aeroplane engines, causing the largest shutdown of flights since 1945 and stranding over a million passengers worldwide. The ash cloud was tracked, closing airspace over major travel destinations in Spain, Italy and Germany until May 17th. The eruption sent silica and ash particles rapidly into jet streams, spreading the particles and forcing many airlines to shutdown over an 8 day period, costing the airline industry £1.1 billion as over 107,000 flights were cancelled.

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    Air Travel Disruption After The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Eruption

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    The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption in Iceland ejected ash that damaged aeroplane engines, causing the largest shutdown of flights since 1945 and stranding over a million passengers worldwide. The ash cloud was tracked, closing airspace over major travel destinations in Spain, Italy and Germany until May 17th. The eruption sent silica and ash particles rapidly into jet streams, spreading the particles and forcing many airlines to shutdown over an 8 day period, costing the airline industry £1.1 billion as over 107,000 flights were cancelled.

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    Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption

    Due to volcanic eruptions in 2010 in Iceland aeroplane engines would


    get damaged due to the volcanic ash being ejected, this caused the
    largest shut down of aeroplanes since 1945 causing over a million
    passengers to become stranded all over the world. After the first
    wave of cancel flights airspace the ash cloud was tracked closing
    down major travel destinations such as Spain Italy and Germany with
    these locations being reopened on 17th may.
    The eruption produced silica particles and ash were rapidly sent into
    the upper atmosphere and into a jet stream spreading these particles
    at a Rapid and constant pace causing a vast number of airlines to
    shut down causing the airline industry to lose 1.1billion pounds over
    the 8 day ban of over 107,000 flights as stated by the airport
    operators association

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