up truck over the thinly  crusted lava flow, the truck comes off the flow with nothing more  than four flat tires and a charred bottom. In reality, lava is  capable of temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which  would have not only caused the gas tank to explode, but would have  also melted the undercarriage and left them trapped and eventually  everyone would have died when either the gas tank exploded or when  the pick