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| Iceland Monitor
| Tue 4 Aug 2015
| 11.29 GMT
Plane swerves to avoid volcanic plume
“It happened in a flash,” recalls Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, of the time he flew over Grímsvötn volcano when an eruption began.
“I had been in the air for about half an hour when this picture was taken,” he continues. “By that time, the plume has reached all the way up [around 10,000 m]. It all happened very quickly. The ice is very thin at Grímsvötn.”
The picture above, taken by Sigurðsson, clearly shows how the aircraft swerved around the volcanic plume caused by the 1998 eruption of Grímsvötn.
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