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Liputan6.com, Amsterdam: Dutch airline, KLM, urged that civil aviation can be re-opened. Pressure was put forward after their successful test flights without passengers from the Airport Duesseldorf, Germany, heading for Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, yesterday [read: desperate, KLM aircraft flew from Germany].

At a press conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, recently, Executive Director Peter Hartman said KLM, KLM wants to resume passenger flights to Europe after the ban was issued last Friday. "We hope to receive permission from European air navigation safety agency or Eurocontrol as soon as possible in order to carry passengers to their destination." In fact, added Hartman, KLM will fly again seven airplanes without passengers from Duesseldorf to Amsterdam on this Sunday.

When confirmed, Eurocontrol has declined to comment on this issue. Meanwhile, the Dutch Transport Minister said "this Sunday the national airspace will remain closed for two days. However, further flight tests and equipment are allowed to measure the influence of volcanic ash from Mount Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, the planes in Dutch airspace.

Meanwhile, some scientists believe the volcanic ash can cause aircraft engine damage thus endanger the flight. In 1989, KLM Boeing 747 which flew through a cloud of volcanic ash over Alaska, could lose the temporary four-engine aircraft. However, eventually the engine can function again and the plane landed safely. (ADI / ANS / AP)