Aeroporto di La Palma (SPC) chiuso per eruzione vulcanica.

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Buongiorno.
L'aeroporto di La Palma (SPC), Isole Canarie, è stato chiuso al traffico per l'eruzione del vulcano Cumbre Vieja. Era dal 1971 che questo vulcano non tornava in attività e la nube di polveri e ceneri che ha provocato ha obbligato la chiusura dell'aeroporto ieri.
Un paio di milioni di passeggeri annui, traffico soprattutto low cost e leisure con voli regolari verso le maggiori città Europee.
85.000 i residenti sull'isola mentre i molti turisti vengono evacuati con i ferry.






da aljazeera.com
Scientists say another vent has opened up on Cumbre Vieja, the volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma that has been erupting for a week, exposing tens of thousands of islanders to new dangers.
The airport was shut down on Saturday because of a cloud of ash spewing out of it.
The intensity of the eruption that began on September 19 has increased in recent days, prompting the evacuation of three more villages on the island, part of Spain’s Canary Islands archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off northwest Africa.
Rivers of lava have been sliding down the mountainside towards the southwestern coast of the island, destroying everything in their path, including hundreds of homes.
Emergency crews pulled back from the volcano Friday as explosions sent molten rock and ash over a wide area.
Nearly 7,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes.
The recent volcanic eruption is the first since 1971 on La Palma, which has a population of 85,000.

 

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Ieri è atterrato il primo volo Binter Canarias dalla riapertura dell'aeroporto



A commercial plane landed on La Palma in the Canary Islands on Wednesday, the first since ash from an erupting volcano halted flights at the weekend, airport operator Aena said.
The airport was shut down on Saturday due to the accumulation of ash from La Cumbre Vieja volcano, which began erupting 10 days ago.
It was closed for 24 hours but although it reopened, all flights were cancelled until a plane operated by local airline Binter, landed at La Palma’s airport on Wednesday afternoon, an Aena spokesman told AFP.
Binter confirmed the flight’s arrival, saying it flew in from the neighbouring island of Tenerife after “an improvement in security conditions” on La Palma, where the volcano is still active.
La Cumbre Vieja lies about 15 kilometres (nine miles) west of the airport as the crow flies, although the lava has only spilt down the western side of the volcano.
Binter said it would also resume its transportation of aid for those hit by the eruption of the volcano, which has forced more than 6,000 people from their homes and destroyed 656 properties, as well as huge swathes of banana plantations.
Another two local flights were scheduled to arrive later in the afternoon, but two others from Madrid and Munich were cancelled, Aena’s website showed.