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MtKelud Ash Airports

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An airplane is is covered with volcanic ash from an eruption of Mount Kelud at Yogyakarta airport, Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. The major volcanic eruption shrouded a large swath of the country's most heavily populated island in ash on Friday, triggering the evacuation of more than 100,000 people and the closure of three international airports after killing two people.

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