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Belgium, poland and germany and underscoring how serious the problem is, the romstein u.s. air force base in germany at this hour, has been shut down because of the volcanic cloud. martha: wow. how long does it take for it to dissipate? i mean, you know, how long will it be a problem in the skies? >> one industry insider told me it is essentially a moving target. in britain, air traffic control officials say the airports will remain shut down until at least 1:00 a.m. saturday morning and this is a problem that many believe is going to persist for the next several days and possibly the next sev...

All the flight crew had been able to see through the whole thing was a bizarre luminous glowing around the plane. that incident that happened in 1982 is why we have rules about not flying through clouds of ash from volcanos. a volcano in indonesia had erupted. that british airways flight went right through the ash cloud. it was at night. they couldn't see it. ash clouds are dry so they don't turn up on weather radar. the particulate matter from that volcanic cloud just locked up that jet's engines. the rules now, flights to keep 120 nautical miles away from volcanic ash. volcanos go off from t...

Relax. >> sit back and relax. the volcanic cloud has forced at least six countries to entirely clothes their air space. the 200 trans-atlantic flights have been grounded. the u.k. has grounded most nonessential flights and nine german airports, including two in berlin are closed today. let's turn to rob marciano. he is tracking the plume of volcanic ash as it makes its way across the atlantic and into the u.k. how long is it going to last? >> we are hopeful the winds of change will begin to disburse this. it gets complicated. show you a couple of pictures that we have been taking from outer ...

Were able to get the engines started miraculously and that's not a record that any pilot wants to set, really. bill: i don't want to be on that flight,et. why can't the pilot fly around this like they do in a thunderstorm? >> the problem is all the clouds look the same, a volcanic cloud, from the naked eye, and a regular cloud. now, my fearful flying clients who i help and they've been asking me a lot of questions like this, the radar, the aircraft is designed to pick up water drop let, not pick up volcanic ash, so that's the problem there, and it's a very densely populated area as far as air ...

In the cabin no one could explain and the windshield of the plane was completely opaque like it was sandblasted. all the flight crew had been able to see through the whole thing was a bizarre loomenous glowing around the plane. that incident that happened in 1982 is why we have rules about not flying through clouds of ash from kvolcanos. a volcano erupted, the plane went through the ash clouds. they're dry, so they don't show up. but the particulate matter in the sill kits from that volcanic cloud locked up the jet engines. the rules are, to keep 120 nautical miles away from ash. good to have ...