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KLM cancels dozens of flights due to Iceland volcanic eruption THE HAGUE (AFP) Nov 03, 2004 Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Amsterdam airport Wednesday after Dutch airline KLM canceled dozens of flights for safety reasons to avoid clouds of black smoke and ashes from a volcanic eruption in Iceland, airport officials said. The ashes which were drifting across Europe can damage aircraft engines. On Tuesday transatlantic flights had been rerouted because of the volcanic plume which covered a several hundred kilometre-wide danger zone between Iceland and northern Norway. On Wednesday hundreds of would-be passengers at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport had to be accommodated at nearby hotels for the night but no rooms could be found for some 400 people who will spend the night on camp beds at the airport. All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.
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