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Last flight in
Repat flight arrives as ash cloud reaches Swindon at 6:00pm
Only low-level gliders, paragliders and light aircraft can fly over Swindon tonight.
For the first time ever, all flights in UK airspace have been suspended as an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption in Iceland moves south over Europe - hitting Swindon at 6:00pm.
The repatriation flight that brought the body of serviceman Jonathan Burgess, 20, of 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, who was killed in Helmand province last week, the last to fly in.
The C-17 from Afganistan landed just after 9:00am.
Repatriation Wootton Bassett
Fusilier Jonathan Burgess, 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh
pictures by calx multimedia
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Repatriations in Wootton Bassett | |||||||||