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Crash in a Volcano

Crash in a Volcano
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Stunt pilot Craig Hosking, along with aerial crew Mike Benson and Chris Duddy, set out to film a sequence of shots in which a helicopter appears to descend into a volcano, for the Hollywood thriller Sliver (1993). To do this, the crew intended to fly over Hawaii's most active vent – Kilauea.

The plan was to fly over the crater as low and as slowly as they could. With his camera trained on the crater, Mike was going to zoom into the bubbling larva and create the illusion of falling into it.

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