My dad had a 1957 Cessna 172 and had taken a cousin and her friend on a flight to see the hole on top of the mountain. As my dad flew toward the mountain, he noticed a black band of clouds between two lighter ones. at this time he was about 75 miles out from the mountain. As he got closer he realized it was not a cloud, but a huge ash plume, and he could see huge boulders being tossed into the air, and flashes of lightning. He immediately turned the plane around and flew back to the Auburn airport where he kept the plane. He found out later that my cousin knew that the mountain had blew, they had heard it on the radio on the way to the airport. He was so mad he was speechless. He would not have even taken off that day, my cousin endangered his life as well as her friend's and her own. Just a small amount of ash sucked up by the engine could have brought the plane down.
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