{"id":9326,"date":"2010-04-15T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/britain-closes-airspace-as-volcanic-ash-from\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:44:00","slug":"britain-closes-airspace-as-volcanic-ash-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/britain-closes-airspace-as-volcanic-ash-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain Closes Airspace as Volcanic Ash From Iceland Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/16\/world\/europe\/16ash.html?ref=global-home'>Britain Closes Airspace as Volcanic Ash From Iceland Spreads<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/16\/world\/europe\/16ash.html?ref=global-home\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/04\/16\/world\/16ashspan-cnd\/16ashspan-cnd-articleLarge.jpg\" align=\"text-top\" height=\"275\" width=\"499\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow, this is a big deal!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>British civil aviation authorities ordered the closing of the country\u2019s  airspace as of noon on Thursday to shield aircraft from a high-altitude  cloud of ash drifting south and east from an erupting volcano in  Iceland. The plume shut down airports and forced the cancellation of  hundreds of flights in a wide arc from Ireland to Scandinavia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eu.techcrunch.com\/2010\/04\/15\/ashes-no-crashes-watch-live-online-as-aircraft-clear-from-the-uks-ash-filled-skies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eu.techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture-232.png\" align=\"text-top\" height=\"460\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The image above from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightradar24.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>FlightRadar24<\/em><\/a> shows aircraft starting to clear out of UK airspace.<\/p>\n<p>A <a title=\"MetaFilter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/91057\/Iceland-takes-its-revenge\" target=\"_blank\">thread at <em>MetaFilter<\/em><\/a> has more information and comments&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain Closes Airspace as Volcanic Ash From Iceland Spreads Wow, this is a big deal! British civil aviation authorities ordered the closing of the country\u2019s airspace as of noon on Thursday to shield aircraft from a high-altitude cloud of ash drifting south and east from an erupting volcano in Iceland. The plume shut down airports &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/britain-closes-airspace-as-volcanic-ash-from\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Britain Closes Airspace as Volcanic Ash From Iceland Spreads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}