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tonight, a big volcano becomes a giant pain in the ash. it s the worst disruption of air travel since the attacks of 9/11. 4,000 flights grounded. the reason, a volcano in iceland opened a new vent last night spewing a huge cloud of ash. tonight, it s still going. aviation professionals will say they just don t know when it will be safe for passengers to fly again. the ash cloud is hundreds of miles wide and thousands of feet high. volcanic ash is essentially tiny particles of glad and rock. and those particles can block vital sensors, clog air filters and kill a plane s power it? can get into the engine. it can effect the performance and ultimately cause an engine to shut down. shepard: that s happened frequently with volcanic particles causing engine problems with jumbo jets and passenger planes. nobody wants to take any risk.

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