'Nothing is ever topping this!' Stunned tourist on easyJet flight films spectacular eruption of Icelandic volcano

A tourer flying implicit Iceland connected Thursday greeting got the view of a beingness aft her easyJet formation gave a cleanable panoramic of the country's latest volcano eruption.

Posting connected X, West Ham instrumentality Kayleigh, from Bedford, shared her stunning footage of Sundhnúks crater connected the Reykjanes peninsula bubbling with rivers of reddish blistery lava and magma from her mile precocious vantage point.

On X, the excited traveller said: 'My beingness has peaked. Nothing is ever topping this. Volcano erupted past nighttime successful Iceland.' 

According to the The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) the volcanic enactment started connected the Sundhnukagigar fissure extracurricular the colony of Grindavik astatine 11.14pm connected Wednesday evening.

Kayleigh told MailOnline however her formation the greeting aft proved rather the commencement to her wintertime holiday, saying the ambiance connected committee was 'incredible' arsenic radical realised what they were seeing.

The holidaymaker, who's inactive successful Iceland, says determination were mixed reactions connected board, with immoderate radical a small tense astatine Mother Nature's fiery display: 'I wasn’t disquieted but I deliberation a fewer radical connected the level were. I americium a precise laid backmost idiosyncratic and I deliberation if it was genuinely dangerous, we would’ve been rerouted.' 

'The aviator did denote it agelong earlier we could each spot it but the ambiance was incredible! Everyone was gasping and filming it and conscionable successful awe. 

'I felt truly atrocious for everyone connected the close broadside of the level truthful I held my telephone successful beforehand of the model truthful they could each spot it too.'

Kayleigh took the footage arsenic the level started its descent into Keflavik International Airport connected Thursday morning, aft leaving Luton Airport around 9am. 

She says you tin inactive spot the volcano from terra firma too: 'You tin spot the eruption from astir of the land astatine nighttime owed to it being truthful bright.'

The volcano lies 20 miles south-west of Reykjavik, wherever the astir caller eruption ended connected September 6th.

The latest volcanic merchandise began pursuing a 'small earthquake' astatine 10:30pm connected Wednesday.

This volition beryllium the tenth eruption successful 3 years, the country's meteorological office said.

The adjacent sportfishing municipality of Grindavik, location to astir 4,000 residents earlier an evacuation bid successful December past year, remains mostly deserted owed to the menace from lava flows.

The remaining 50 to 60 residents, the Svartsengi Power Station and the tourer attraction the Blue Lagoon, a spa installation with hotels and ample earthy pools, person been evacuated.

It looks similar the state contamination volition spell to the southbound and retired to sea, truthful determination won't beryllium immoderate ill-effects connected locals. 

Dramatic video and photographs showed a partition of magma lighting up the entity successful the aboriginal hours of Thursday morning. 

Spectacular images broadcast unrecorded from the volcano showed red-orange lava gushing from a agelong fissure surrounded by heavy smoke.

Volcanoes connected the peninsula had not erupted for 800 years until March 2021 erstwhile a play of heightened seismic enactment began.

Since past volcanologists person warned that volcanic enactment successful the portion had entered a caller era.

The latest eruption is smaller than the past one, astatine the extremity of August, the IMO said successful a statement.

'The outpourings are little and the lava is not flowing arsenic fast,' added Ofeigsson.

Most of Grindavik's 4,000 residents were evacuated a twelvemonth ago, soon earlier the archetypal volcanic eruption successful the area.

Since then, astir each the houses person been sold to the state, and the residents departed.

'About 50 houses were occupied successful caller nights,' said the civilian extortion department.

In January, during different eruption, 3 houses successful the colony were engulfed by flames.

The Blue Lagoon has announced it volition beryllium closed until astatine slightest Sunday.  

A connection connected their website reads: 'Due to a volcanic eruption that commenced successful Sundhnúksgígar connected November 20, we took the precautionary measurement of evacuating and temporarily closing each our operational units.

Benedikt Ófeigsson from the Norwegian Meteorological Agency told section media Channel 2: 'There is presently thing successful danger, and if this does not make overmuch otherwise than it has been doing, the infrastructure should flight this rather well.'

Icelandic authorities person erected barriers to divert the streams of molten stone distant from the municipality of Grindavik, the powerfulness presumption and the Blue Lagoon.

Scientists person warned that Reykjanes is apt to acquisition repeated volcanic outbreaks for decades, perchance adjacent centuries.

But the eruptions are not expected to origin the level of disruption seen erstwhile the Eyjafjallajokull volcano burst successful 2010, spreading ash clouds crossed Europe and grounding immoderate 100,000 flights globally.