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Iceland farting on the world

The big fartThe big fartAn unprecedented no-fly zone imposed across Europe following a huge fart in Iceland caused travel chaos for over a million air passengers. Airspace stretching from Ireland to Finland, including airports in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels, was closed following the shart (shitty fart) of a vulcano in Eyjafjallajokull in south-east Iceland which sent a cloud of bad smell across some of the world's busiest flight paths.