How can volcanic ash affect your flight? Imagine you’re on a plane flying through a volcanic ash plume! In this episode of the AXA Research Files, Science Presenter Greg Foot travels with Volcanologist Corrado Cimarelli to Sakurajima, Japan, one of the most active volcanoes on the planet. Together they witness the power of a major eruption first hand. And Greg discovers that an ash cloud can easily bring you crashing down to earth.

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In this film we see how catastrophic volcanic ash can be for jet aircraft, and why it’s so vital to understand its properties. This research could help save your flight – and your life!

(With thanks to Professor Masato Iguchi and staff at the Sakurajima Volcano Observatory).

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