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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7281816" data-attributes="member: 92282">Heathrow skies silenced by Iceland volcanic ash cloudThe 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.</blockquote>

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