This is the story that comes up whenever flight/ air travel and volcanoes come up together. I think this was the first time anyone realised just how destructive volcanic ash could be to jet engines, and was the reason behind the disruption of European air traffic when Eyejafjallajokull volcano erupted back in 2011.
All engines out, you're still trying to turn this free-fall brick back into an aeroplane. No vision through what is now a bathroom window. And still the presence of mind not to panic the passengers. That is a fully-formed pilot. God knows how he did that. RIP sir.
One of the passengers was a journo and she wrote a book about it soon after the event. A remarkable read, but just cannot remember what it's called. Wikipedia to the rescue: "One of the passengers, Betty Tootell, wrote a book about the accident, _All Four Engines Have Failed"._
I loved this story when it first came out. We first heard the basic details and I was thinking "Whaaa...?", trying to imagine how I would have reacted. I settled on "screaming and sobbing". Then the details started to emerge and I learnt that the crew got out the manuals and started going through the checklists until they got to "start engine number 1" followed by a pause - then "back to step one". A special breed...
I’ve read a fairly detailed account of this, and dammit the calm approach and practical approach by the flight crew was what saved the day. Iirc as a result the engine restart procedure on checklists was shortened to what had been successful on that flight! Also, I believe that all crew & passengers meet every year. A survivors club as it were.
Oh so sad to hear of his recent death. Thank you so much for highlighting this story. I know of the amazing "Landing on the Hudson" but had never heard this heroic story. THANK YOU. RIP CAPTAIN MOODY 🌻
I listen to a lot of ATC recordings from the US and it’s always a delight to hear the British pilots being so wonderfully calm and understated. Rest in peace you wonderful man.
@@andygilbert1877My dad, ex-ČSLA dog handler trainer (formally officer, but not a career soldier) said "People have their pecularities. Officers are almost people."
What a fabulous gentleman ❤ I was so surprised when they said he was in the audience. Saddened to learn of his recent passing but delighted to have learnt of his story..... Particularly the badgers arse bit 😂😂😂
@@johntanner3659Not correct. It was done due to Americans always referring to British Airways just as “British”. I know this because I spent a lot of time in the US during this period and heard Americans on multiple occasions saying it. BA attempting to be a “world airline” at the time thought it would be a good idea to just put British on the side, but it didn’t last very long due to the derision it brought about.
RIP Eric Moody. The episode was filmed on Mon 20th Feb 2023, I was in the audience, and was the first recorded for the 'U' series. No idea why it went out as episode 11.
Alan Davies should have lost points for saying "falling". That's the kind of misinformation which makes people afraid of flying. A 747 with all-engine failure has a glide ratio of 15:1, which means it can fly under control for over 100 miles before it loses 37,000 feet of altitude.
The press misreport this story so much! Saying things like the passengers being unaware what was happening. When all four engines of a 747 "flame out" you will notice. It will be so much quieter.
I believe he said all the oxygen masks had dropped, so that might have been a give away for the passengers to think, things weren't quite going to plan.
@@medler2110 Yes, the oxygen masks will have to drop - fresh air is provided through the engines - if the engines stop oxygen levels will soon drop and everyone will suffocate. (There's an urban myth that the same air is recycled).
That's why we have pilot's who require aptitude and skill. Today's "quota" pilots who are given an easy ride will be eventually responsible for many deaths.
also if they hadnt ignited the engines they wouldnt of been able to make it over a mountain range in the way of the closest airport and wouldve had to ditch it
They couldn't see because the windscreen had been sandblasted by the ash from the volcano.… St Elmos fire would have happened, as it does on lots of flights because of the static caused, but in this instance it was literally the ash grinding at all the forward facing surfaces.
Sandi's calling it dust is way off the mark. It was volcanic ash which is basically clouds of tiny rocks, which apparently melted onto the fan blades in the engines, It was only when the plane had descended that somehow the ash detached itself allowing an engine to be restarted followed by others. There was a crew of 3 on the flight deck including a flight engineer in those days.
These 'flyboys' are a different breed, and the aviation industry is unique in that admin don't really argue with the sharp minds of their pilots.....especially at 35,0000 feet. Damn straight the BBC should be humbled, but actually they should be disbanded and facing justice for years of allowing pervs and coke heads to work for them, let alone misleading the public about everything.
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Capt Moody sadly died in March 2024. Thank you for your service sir.
Capt Calm
😢🖤🕯️
RIP Eric.
RIP
damn, that realy put a dampener on the eavning! but I raise a pint to him!
The passengers and crew of this flight got together and formed the "Galunggung Gliding Club" to keep in contact.
Amazing
I was just looking up the incident report on Wikipedia, Cpt Moody passed away in March of this year. Rest in peace
Did you cry?
This is the story that comes up whenever flight/ air travel and volcanoes come up together. I think this was the first time anyone realised just how destructive volcanic ash could be to jet engines, and was the reason behind the disruption of European air traffic when Eyejafjallajokull volcano erupted back in 2011.
Well done… but you missed a. ‘e’ 😂
@@MeppyMan Well, I try my best! (modest blush)
I did not know they had volcanoes in Wales...
You misspelt Eyjafjallajökull.
And it was 2010
All engines out, you're still trying to turn this free-fall brick back into an aeroplane. No vision through what is now a bathroom window. And still the presence of mind not to panic the passengers.
That is a fully-formed pilot.
God knows how he did that. RIP sir.
Apparently along some edges of the windows there were strips of the windscreen that weren't sand-blasted, but it definitely wasn't an easy task!
Free-fall bricks don't have a glide slope of 15;1, on the other hand, a 747 does.
One of the passengers was a journo and she wrote a book about it soon after the event. A remarkable read, but just cannot remember what it's called.
Wikipedia to the rescue: "One of the passengers, Betty Tootell, wrote a book about the accident, _All Four Engines Have Failed"._
Betty Tootell also went on to marry a man whom she met on the flight
My Captain, my Captain! What a great sense of calm. A trait so many of us could benefit from. ✌️✅
I loved this story when it first came out. We first heard the basic details and I was thinking "Whaaa...?", trying to imagine how I would have reacted. I settled on "screaming and sobbing".
Then the details started to emerge and I learnt that the crew got out the manuals and started going through the checklists until they got to "start engine number 1" followed by a pause - then "back to step one".
A special breed...
I’ve read a fairly detailed account of this, and dammit the calm approach and practical approach by the flight crew was what saved the day. Iirc as a result the engine restart procedure on checklists was shortened to what had been successful on that flight!
Also, I believe that all crew & passengers meet every year. A survivors club as it were.
1:14 “Falling with style”
Oh so sad to hear of his recent death. Thank you so much for highlighting this story. I know of the amazing "Landing on the Hudson" but had never heard this heroic story. THANK YOU. RIP CAPTAIN MOODY 🌻
Mentour Pilot did a video about this. BA flight 009.
I came here expecting to hear about the gimli glider
The 747 actually 'glides' amongst the best (if not the best) of the large airliners. Amazing piloting.
I think it's more falling while moving a little forward....😂
@@royster3345 Agreed, "gliding" is a relative term 😃
@@alfnoakes392glides better than the Space Shuttle though!
@@hairyairey But not as good as the A380, which is designed to glide, like ALL AIRBUS craft.
@@Demun1649Google first hits has glide slope of 747 and a380 both at 15:1.
This man is simply the epitome of a calm ,capable , intelligent and unbelievably modest man. RIP Captain Moody.
He was so British.
He is the epitome of “The Man”
I listen to a lot of ATC recordings from the US and it’s always a delight to hear the British pilots being so wonderfully calm and understated. Rest in peace you wonderful man.
The full story of the flight is well worth watching.
Captain Eric Moody and his crew did a phenomenal job getting that aircraft down safely.
This is why American soldiers love British officers because they're always calm and have something very strange to say.
Ex British soldier here…yeah, we noticed the strange bit too! 😂😂😂
@@andygilbert1877My dad, ex-ČSLA dog handler trainer (formally officer, but not a career soldier) said "People have their pecularities. Officers are almost people."
It's what we Brits do 😂 part of a lifetime of sarcasm - deadpan delivery.
That cabin announcement is a legend in the aviation business.
What a fabulous gentleman ❤ I was so surprised when they said he was in the audience. Saddened to learn of his recent passing but delighted to have learnt of his story..... Particularly the badgers arse bit 😂😂😂
0:11 Alan, at some point in time (I saw it in the 1980s) this used to be the standard BA colorscheme. Not British Airways, just “British”.
@@ChuckWind-Saw but also on Hawker-Siddeley Tridents 😉
They did it as a cost cutting measure in around 1980.
@@johntanner3659Not correct. It was done due to Americans always referring to British Airways just as “British”. I know this because I spent a lot of time in the US during this period and heard Americans on multiple occasions saying it. BA attempting to be a “world airline” at the time thought it would be a good idea to just put British on the side, but it didn’t last very long due to the derision it brought about.
What a legend.
Legendary.
God bless you Captain Moody( Captain Calm) a true hero
Nothing like his brother Mad Eye Moody.
Have to sound laconic and laid back 😂❤
"What else could I do?" A stoic and pragmatic hero would say things like that.
@@lhpl Yeah haha I didn't need 5 minutes in the toilet just to breathe and think did that actually just happen..
That's one chilled out cool dude
Splendid chap.
The story goes that when he reported to Jakarta "we have lost all four engines" the controller responded "confirm you have lost number four engine?"
RIP Eric Moody. The episode was filmed on Mon 20th Feb 2023, I was in the audience, and was the first recorded for the 'U' series. No idea why it went out as episode 11.
There are times on RUclips when one "Like" is not enough.
People of this character and calibre are sadly slowly leaving us. Leaving us .....
There’s an episode of Air Crash Investigations about this incident, it kickstarted a massive obsession for me
Check out the story of the Gimli Glider.
Alan Davies should have lost points for saying "falling". That's the kind of misinformation which makes people afraid of flying. A 747 with all-engine failure has a glide ratio of 15:1, which means it can fly under control for over 100 miles before it loses 37,000 feet of altitude.
It was not a public information announcement, it was,a joke. Do get a grip.
@@seeingthepattern Cheers for that. It made me giggle, audibly. 😄
@@graceygrumble ☺
Hero.
RIP Captain Moody
All four engines stopped!!!!! They'll be stuck up there for ages.
And the Galunggung Gliding Club have held regular meetings ever since!
So was he successful at not panicking the passengers? How did people in the cabin react?
Sully who?
The press misreport this story so much! Saying things like the passengers being unaware what was happening. When all four engines of a 747 "flame out" you will notice. It will be so much quieter.
I believe he said all the oxygen masks had dropped, so that might have been a give away for the passengers to think, things weren't quite going to plan.
@@medler2110 Yes, the oxygen masks will have to drop - fresh air is provided through the engines - if the engines stop oxygen levels will soon drop and everyone will suffocate. (There's an urban myth that the same air is recycled).
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"glid" Sandi??
That's why we have pilot's who require aptitude and skill. Today's "quota" pilots who are given an easy ride will be eventually responsible for many deaths.
British stiff upper lip at its very best.
Typical bri
wasnt sand it was a rare phenomina knows as st elmo's fire and it was the middle of the night so thats why they couldnt see lol
also if they hadnt ignited the engines they wouldnt of been able to make it over a mountain range in the way of the closest airport and wouldve had to ditch it
Wrong in every possible way. That's rare. Fortunately.
They couldn't see because the windscreen had been sandblasted by the ash from the volcano.… St Elmos fire would have happened, as it does on lots of flights because of the static caused, but in this instance it was literally the ash grinding at all the forward facing surfaces.
Wrong! There was St Elmo's Fire, but it was caused by the same volcanic dust that made the engines fail and sandblasted the windshield.
Sandi's calling it dust is way off the mark. It was volcanic ash which is basically clouds of tiny rocks, which apparently melted onto the fan blades in the engines, It was only when the plane had descended that somehow the ash detached itself allowing an engine to be restarted followed by others. There was a crew of 3 on the flight deck including a flight engineer in those days.
These 'flyboys' are a different breed, and the aviation industry is unique in that admin don't really argue with the sharp minds of their pilots.....especially at 35,0000 feet.
Damn straight the BBC should be humbled, but actually they should be disbanded and facing justice for years of allowing pervs and coke heads to work for them, let alone misleading the public about everything.
Get right with God now commit to Jesus ❤
Her voice. 50/50 with Captain Janeway from Star trek as to which is more annoying.