“...suggests the volcano could yet again blow its top in an explosive eruption.”
I imagine that their is a 98% chance that it will blow - someday.
And that sequence of photos - it is amazing. There was a married couple flying over the mountain that day as well and they got some amazing photos. The pilot put the plane in a steep dive to build up enough speed to get around to the opposite side before they got blown out of the sky.
I always thought the picture of the guy watching from another mountain was impressive. He was standing up in one frame, and in the next one, his butt was on the ground. I don’t believe the blast knocked him down, I thought I heard that his knees simply buckled from the visual intensity of what he was seeing...but I could be wrong on that.