Erupting Chile volcano suspends airline flights
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Erupting Chile volcano suspends airline flights
* From: AAP
* June 08, 2011 1:25AM
DOMESTIC and international flights from Argentina's two busiest airports have been suspended due to volcanic ash from the erupting Puyehue volcano in Chile, officials say.
An airport official said 32 flights were cancelled at the Buenos Aires Ezeiza international airport and 30 others were cancelled at the Aeroparque de Buenos Aires, which has flights to domestic and regional destinations.
Airports in southern Argentina have been closed since Saturday's eruption of the volcano in neighbouring southern Chile.
The eruption forced the nearby Argentine resort town of Bariloche, population 50,000, to declare a state of emergency on Saturday and close its airport.
It also forced a major border crossing point to close due to low visibility, and dropped ash on the upscale Argentine resort town of Villa La Angostura.
The airport official, who declined to be identified, said a committee would be meeting in the afternoon to decide on future flights.
Flagship carrier Aerolineas Argentinas and its subsidiary Austral as well as Lan Chile, announced earlier the suspension of its flights "until further notice".
Meanwhile in Sao Paulo, the Brazilian airports authority said that 10 flights bound for Argentina were cancelled due to the ash.
The rains that began late on Monday could prove a disastrous mix with the fine volcanic dust spewing from the volcano, 870 kilometres south of the capital Santiago near the border with Argentina, in Chile's Lago Ranco area.
So far 4000 people have been evacuated from 22 rural Chilean communities surrounding the volcano, which rumbled to life on Saturday after showing no activity since 1960, when it erupted following a magnitude 9.5 earthquake.
Northwesterly winds yesterday pushed the giant column of ash over parts of southern Argentina, as Chilean officials visited houses urging residents to leave the remote region below the volcano, which stands at 2,240 metres above sea level.
Erupting Chile volcano suspends airline flights
* From: AAP
* June 08, 2011 1:25AM
DOMESTIC and international flights from Argentina's two busiest airports have been suspended due to volcanic ash from the erupting Puyehue volcano in Chile, officials say.
An airport official said 32 flights were cancelled at the Buenos Aires Ezeiza international airport and 30 others were cancelled at the Aeroparque de Buenos Aires, which has flights to domestic and regional destinations.
Airports in southern Argentina have been closed since Saturday's eruption of the volcano in neighbouring southern Chile.
The eruption forced the nearby Argentine resort town of Bariloche, population 50,000, to declare a state of emergency on Saturday and close its airport.
It also forced a major border crossing point to close due to low visibility, and dropped ash on the upscale Argentine resort town of Villa La Angostura.
The airport official, who declined to be identified, said a committee would be meeting in the afternoon to decide on future flights.
Flagship carrier Aerolineas Argentinas and its subsidiary Austral as well as Lan Chile, announced earlier the suspension of its flights "until further notice".
Meanwhile in Sao Paulo, the Brazilian airports authority said that 10 flights bound for Argentina were cancelled due to the ash.
The rains that began late on Monday could prove a disastrous mix with the fine volcanic dust spewing from the volcano, 870 kilometres south of the capital Santiago near the border with Argentina, in Chile's Lago Ranco area.
So far 4000 people have been evacuated from 22 rural Chilean communities surrounding the volcano, which rumbled to life on Saturday after showing no activity since 1960, when it erupted following a magnitude 9.5 earthquake.
Northwesterly winds yesterday pushed the giant column of ash over parts of southern Argentina, as Chilean officials visited houses urging residents to leave the remote region below the volcano, which stands at 2,240 metres above sea level.
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