Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Chile volcano ash disrupts regional air travel

A vast cloud of ash spewing from a Chilean volcano forced dozens of flights to be canceled Tuesday across South America, while mud and rain mixed with ash poured down on the resort areas in the region.

Three days after Chile's Puyehue volcano began spewing debris, all flights in and out of the two busy Buenos Aires airports were scrapped after meteorologists said a portion of the cloud had moved as far as the Argentina capital, even though at 5,000 m high it was not visible to residents.

More than 90 per cent of the flights in an out of Uruguay also were canceled, airport officials said.

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