REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR -- Ngurah Rai International Airport official has informed that 74,928 passengers were failed to leave and reach Bali due to Mount Agung eruption. The details of the aircraft affected were 207 flights of international routes from and to Bali, as well as 239 domestic flights to and from Bali.
However, the figure was said only a daily prediction. "The real figure was about 15,791 passengers affected by the airport closure," Communication & Legal Section Head I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Arie Ahsanurrohim said to Republika.co.id, on Friday (June 29)
Cancelled flight involved 85 international route with 7,610 passangers and 191 domestic route with 8,181 passangers.
Meanwhile, PT Angkasa Pura I (AP 1) Ngurah Rai branch General manager Yanus Suprayogi said Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Bureau of Meteorology (VAAC Darwin) has forcast that the spread of volcanic ash would be dispersed at a height of 23 thousand feet. It was spewed with a speed of 10 knots.
According to pilots observation report, Mount Agung volcanic ashes dispersed up until 15 to 23 thousand feet altitude. "It drifted toward the west and southwest," Yanus said on Friday (June 29).
Earlier, National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said Mount Agung continues spread smoke and volcanic ash. It caused ash rain in west and southwest Bali, including airspace coordinates of Ngurah Rai Airport.
The result of visual monitoring team in Rendang showed Mount Agung was still spreading volcanic ash and there was a reddish crater flame. The intensity was stable with a high level of ash column reachs 2,500 meters.
“Alert status is still in level three, there has been no increase, but we can’t estimated in the next,” said Sutopo.
The increase of seismic amplitude of Mount Agung was observed within the last 12 hours. Earthquakes are dominated by earthquakes with low frequency content manifested on the surface with gaseous emissions of gas and volcanic ash.
The dangerous radius remains within a radius of 4 km from the top of the crater. The people who lived on the slopes of Mount Agung were reported have conducted an independent evacuation.
A total of 309 people displaced in three dots of refugees are in Tegeh Village Amerta Bhuana Village, Banjar District Office of Jungle Village, and Banjar Village Village Jungle Village in Karangasem regency.
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