Flying over an eruptive volcano in Iceland

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/2b281fad-89ce-46e1-8097-1cfed2f89dc2.webm

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pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 34d (1 reply)

Seems like the heat coming off that would give you crazy turbulence

xylol@leminal.space · 8 pts · 34d

The dust is also really problematic from what I remember on one of the podcast episodes of black box down

state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 34d (3 replies)

That looks like a scene from 2012 and you just made it out in time.

logi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d (2 replies)

No, 2012 2011 (and 2014) was under a glacier and the magma hitting ice caused it to explode in dust. I think the term is tephra. This is from the last few years where there has been a series of eruptions right next to the international airport in Keflavík.

bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d (1 reply)

I think that you may be referring to the flight disruption caused by this eruption (although it's 2010, not 2012) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_travel_disruption_after_the_2010_Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull_eruption

And I suspect that they mean the apocalyptic movie named "2012"!

logi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d

Ah yes. And with the Grímsvötn eruption in 2011 and Holuhraun in 2014 I got confused about the years. What even was Iceland doing in 2012, right?

Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 34d

This the kinda shit that keeps you from landing your balloon in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

"There must be an updraft here"

IWW4@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 34d

That is incredible!!!