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Airports Closed in Europe - volcano ash
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Heathrow skies silenced by Iceland volcanic ash cloud
The scream of plane engines is a familiar sound to people living under the Heathrow flight path but all is temporarily quiet near the west London airport.
This is because flights in and out of the UK and several other European countries have been suspended as ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland moves south.
The air traffic control service (Nats) has stopped flights entering and leaving UK airspace until 0700 BST on Friday.
'Birds singing'
Planespotter Ken Davies was standing on a grassy knoll near the airport as he watched one of the final planes out of Heathrow take off at around 1215BST.
With binoculars in hand, he explained how he tended to come to the same spot every few weeks.
He said: "There is very little activity going on. Nothing is moving. I had originally heard the planes were going to stop an hour earlier but the last one took off just a few minutes ago. We normally see one every minute but now it's just quiet.
The scream of plane engines is a familiar sound to people living under the Heathrow flight path but all is temporarily quiet near the west London airport.
This is because flights in and out of the UK and several other European countries have been suspended as ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland moves south.
The air traffic control service (Nats) has stopped flights entering and leaving UK airspace until 0700 BST on Friday.
'Birds singing'
Planespotter Ken Davies was standing on a grassy knoll near the airport as he watched one of the final planes out of Heathrow take off at around 1215BST.
With binoculars in hand, he explained how he tended to come to the same spot every few weeks.
He said: "There is very little activity going on. Nothing is moving. I had originally heard the planes were going to stop an hour earlier but the last one took off just a few minutes ago. We normally see one every minute but now it's just quiet.
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