Incredible footage shows a dive-bombing drone being incinerated by lava spewing from a volcano in Iceland.
The Fagradalsfjall volcano, which is 25 miles from Reykjavik, began erupting in March after lying dormant for more than 900 years.
Aerial video captures the drone flying over the volcano before crashing into the bubbling lava.
Incredible footage shows a drone being incinerated by lava spewing from a volcano in Iceland
Fagradalsfjall volcano began erupting in March after lying dormant for more than 900 years
Aerial video captures the drone flying over the volcano before crashing into the bubbling lava
It was filmed and operated by YouTuber Joey Helms, who said: ‘Around the volcano where you have the hot gases emitted they cause turbulence all around it and hot rocks raining on to you.
‘[It makes] flying these things even more tricky.’
The long-dormant volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in south-west Iceland flared to life on March 20 after tens of thousands of earthquakes were recorded in the area.
Crowds of hikers have since flocked to the volcano to get a glimpse of the eruption.
Iceland has 32 volcanic systems currently considered active, the highest number in Europe. The country has had an eruption every five years on average.
The vast island near the Arctic Circle straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a crack on the ocean floor separating the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.
It was filmed by YouTuber Joey Helms, who said flying the drone over the volcano was ‘tricky’
The drone was flown up the side of the erupting volcano before crashing into molten lava
Iceland has 32 volcanic systems currently considered active, the highest number in Europe
The shifting of these plates is in part responsible for Iceland’s intense volcanic activity.
The most recent eruption was at Holuhraun, beginning in August 2014 and ending in February 2015, in the Bardarbunga volcanic system in an uninhabited area in the centre of the island.
That eruption did not cause any major disruptions outside the immediate vicinity.
But in 2010, an eruption at the Eyjafjallajokull volcano sent huge clouds of smoke and ash into the atmosphere, disrupting air traffic for more than a week with the cancellation of more than 100,000 flights worldwide and leaving some 10 million passengers stranded.
Sunday hikers look at the lava flowing from the erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano back in March
The volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in south-west Iceland flared to life on March 20
Perched atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Iceland is home to a near-constant stream of seismic activity. Many of these quakes are also linked to volcanic activity