Reuters - A volcano erupted Saturday in Iceland's largest glacier in the country, a year after the disturbances in European transport by the eruption of Eyjafjöll, but the scenario should not be repeated according to the experts .
The Grímsvötn in south-east of the island, let out a plume of white smoke, said Hjorleifr Sveinbjörnsson, Icelandic Meteorological Services, told Reuters.
"This may be a strong eruption, but it is unlikely that this is like last year," said the latter.
The last eruption of Grímsvötn of 2004.
The Icelandic airline Icelandair, said domestic air traffic was not disrupted.
"We do not expect the rash of Grímsvötn affects traffic in the country in any way," said the spokesman Icelandair Gudjon Arngrimsson.
Images broadcast on local media sites show a thick cloud of white smoke formed over the mountains nearby.
"Grímsvötn volcano is a very powerful, so we are monitoring the situation closely, even though its last eruptions were harmless," said Pall Einarsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland, on the website of the daily Morgunbladid.
The air control agency of the continent, Eurocontrol, had suspended several thousands of flights and much of European airspace was closed last year because of the cloud of volcanic ash from the volcano that might deteriorate Eyjafjöll aircraft engines.
