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We Got This Covered
William Kennedy

Helicopter crashes into an active volcano. The crew’s only chance? A grueling climb through blistering ash

In November 1992, a miraculous story of human survival unfolded when a film crew, shooting a sequence for the movie Sliver, crashed their helicopter inside the Pu’u ‘Ō’ō vent of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii

What was supposed to be a routine aerial shoot for a film background sequence went wrong almost instantly. A film‐crew helicopter, carrying pilot Craig Hosking, cinematographer Michael Benson, and camera assistant Chris Duddy, lost power and crash-landed on the crater floor.

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