(재해) 화산폭발 전세계 비행중단
(재해) 화산폭발 전세계 비행중단
On our broadcast tonight, the eruption. Tonight of all things, a volcano has stopped air traffic across the Atlantic. It’s having a massive impact. And this could go on for some time. From NBC News world headquarters in New York, this is NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Good evening. Tonight volcanic ash has caused the worst disruption in air travel since 911. It has bottled up억누르다 flying across the Atlantic and paralyzed much of Europe. Tonight, travelers are stranded오도가도 못하다 in all on six continents.
This is the plume from the air. A massive cloud of ash following the winds in weather patterns right across the Atlantic. The same route the planes fly. Here’s what happened. Last night, a new vent공기구멍 opened and exploded in an already smoldering연기가 모락모락 volcano under the icecap in Island. This is what it did to air travel in Europe from 3AM to noon. All the flights landed just at ground to a halt. More than 4,000 flights have been cancelled. Many of them from the US to Europe. But most of them in Europe itself. By tonight, the ash cloud, we’re told, will cover the entire United Kingdom. Our own Dana Frizen is at London Heathrow tonight. A pretty quiet place. Dana, good evening.
Very quiet! Brian, good evening. You know, Europe has some of the most congested붐비는 air space in the world and has never seen a disruption like this. Flights in and out of several countries including Britain are grounded. And here at Heathrow airport alone, 1000 flights cancelled today. This is the cause of the chaos. A vast cloud of ash spewing from a volcano in Island reaching over 30,000 feet, drifting across the north Atlantic and parts of Europe, a potentially deadly menace위협적인 존재 to any aircraft flying into it.
All over Europe, airports have turned into parking lots. In Great Britain, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, all flights grounded. Partial closures in Norway, Finland, France, Switzerland and Germany. Across the world, travel for hundreds of thousands of people has been disrupted. Island is a forbidding landscape of fire and ice. A volcanic hot spot. And this particular one became active in March, then subsided until blasting through an icecap yesterday.