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West Java, Indonesia

7.25 S, 108.05 E
summit elevation 2168 m
stratovolcano

Galunggung Volcano is located in West Java, Indonesia, about 100 km SE of Bandung. It is one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes.
Galunggung volcano is famous for the incident where a British Airways jet from Singapore to Perth flew through an eruption cloud, and all four engines failed. Disaster was luckily averted and engines restarted minutes before the plane crashed.

The first recorded eruption of Galunggung volcano in 1822 produced lahars which killed more than 4000 people. The 1982-1983 eruptions caused evacuation of 35,000 people and approximately 94,000 ha of cultivated land was severely affected.