[3] At 13:44 UTC (20:44 Jakarta time), Greaves declared an emergency to the local air traffic control authority, stating that all four engines had failed. Its about this time Moody makes one of aviations most understated and famous passenger announcements: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. A China Eastern Airlines pilot was labelled a hero in 2016, and presented with a cash reward, after his quick thinking avoided a runway collision that could have killed up to 439 people. [6] The crew subsequently requested and expedited an increase in altitude in order to clear the high mountains of Indonesia.[7]. We love you. Born in Savannah, Ga and growing up in Hinesville, I was always close Owing to the high Indonesian mountains on the south coast of the island of Java, an altitude of at least 11,500 feet (3,500m) was required to cross the coast safely. The idea proposed from studies in mice is that melanin-making cells produce hydrogen peroxide, which is normally broken down by an enzyme called catalase. Last year, a study from a research group led by no less than one of this years recipients of the Nobel prize in Chemistry, Robert Lefkowitz, offered some clues. As the aircraft approached its target altitude, the St Elmo's fire effect on the windscreen returned. There are times, he tells Flight Safety Australia, that pilots need to work outside the rules and this was one of them. The flight crew quickly determined that the aircraft was capable of gliding for 23 minutes and covering 91 nautical miles (169km) from its flight level of 37,000 feet (11,000m). The problem had not been spotted earlier because of an electronic fault on the aircrafts instrument panel, and the plane lost all power. From November, 1981, to September, 1986, he coordinated all the FBIs Labor Racketeering investigations. WebEric Moody (Captain) Continued flying for British Airways until retiring in 1996 Roger Greaves (First Officer) Unknown Barry Townley-Freeman (Flight Engineer) Has since retired from British Airways Fire Fight (Air Canada 797) Donald Cameron (Captain) Airmanship may sound old school but former British Airways captain Eric Moody argues it is just as important now as it was when he and his crew struggled to restart all 4 engines on his Boeing 747-200 in 1982. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. Once he got landing permission from an airport in Southampton, Atchison guided the plane down, navigating as debris flew around the cockpit and Lancaster remained on the windshield, still held by the flight attendant. All 155 passengers survived; Sullenbergers reward was a book deal with HarperCollins, and early retirement. Many passengers, fearing for their lives, wrote notes to relatives. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. We must've come out of the ash cloud. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. New York, New York, United States. [3] Flight 9 was not the first encounter with this eruption a Garuda DC-9 had encountered ash on 5 April 1982.[8]. Effective date of retirement is no later than August 1, 2022. He says pilots of his era expected things to go wrong and thought ahead about what they would do when that happened. Eventually, the overall effect of a combination of coloured and colourless hair, especially in people with dark hair, is grey. She was imprisoned for a year, so perhaps she was denied hair dye in captivity and by the time she appeared in public again at her execution with her hair cut short her grey roots had grown out. The English lawyer Sir Thomas More, who was later canonised, was executed in the Tower of London in 1535, and again his hair was reported to have turned white before his death. The crew immediately descended and held 12,000 feet (3,700m). When the French queen, Marie Antoinette was led to the guillotine at the age of 37, her hair is said to have turned white the night before in anticipation of her execution. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. She managed to trace some 200 of the 247 passengers on the flight, and went on to marry a fellow survivor, James Ferguson, who had been seated in the row in front of her. I trust you are not in too much distress.. WebIm Captain Eric Moody, a native of coastal Georgia and a full time resident of Jekyll Island for over 25 years with 16 of those years has been spent as a fishing guide. According to Chinese media, the pilot, named He Chao, was at the helm of an Airbus A320-200, preparing to take off from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. And If Id tried to do things by the book, I dont know whether wed still be here.. The process behind this is not well understood. Effective date of retirement is no later than August 1, 2022. Fortunately, all other passengers were belted up, and the pilot - Robert Schornstheimer - managed to land 13 minutes later, avoiding further loss of life. The plane landed safety in Jakarta despite the almost total lack of visibility. After being assessed for post-traumatic stress disorder, Burkill returned to the cockpit five months later. When he opened the door to the cockpit he saw the windscreen ablaze with a St Elmo's fire - a discharge of static electricity. This is your captain speaking. Passengers who had a view out the aircraft windows noted that the engines were unusually bright, with light shining forward through the fan blades and producing a stroboscopic effect. "[10], British Airways continued to operate the Flight 9 route from London Heathrow to Sydney; in March 2012 the route was curtailed to Bangkok. Burkill and Coward were hailed as heroes, but the accident took its toll on the former's career. I think airmanship is at the bottom of it all. SIMON: I mean, the engines were choking with volcanic ash, right? No announcement was made to instruct the passengers to fasten their seatbelts, and 20 of the 57 passengers died in the accident. There was plenty of time to think and there were three of us, Moody says. We have a small problem. Effective date of retirement is no later than August 1, 2022. Naturally, there was concern in the cockpit, with the flight engineer exclaiming: "I don't believe it - all four engines have failed!" I trust you are not in too much distress.". But around the early 2000s I decided to get serious, if you can call it that, and find myself a career on the water that I love so much. Finding a new job with an accident on his record, however, proved difficult, and he rejoined the airline in 2010. The flight crew immediately performed the engine shutdown drill, quickly cutting off fuel supply and arming the fire extinguishers. The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. As the engine cooled from inactivity, and as the aircraft descended out of the ash cloud, the molten ash solidified and enough broke off for air to again flow smoothly through the engine, allowing a successful restart. Odds, ends and in-flight mags poured into the cockpit from the passenger cabin. We just kept trying. The City of Edinburgh had been cruising at 37,000 feet over the ocean on a June night when the number 4 engine, a Rolls-Royce RB- 211, started surging and flamed out. The subsequent explosive decompression saw part of the floor at the rear of the cabin give way, severing a control cable and disabling one of the engines. Perhaps the best known incident of recent times, involving the most brilliantly monikered pilot. Shortly thereafter, engine three restarted, allowing him to climb slowly. The captain of this Qantas flight - Richard Champion de Crespigny- was also given a Polaris Award. At around 12,000 feet, the number 4 engine restarted and Moody realised he could at least level off. MOODY: No. The tags, bearing the campaign's logo, were worn as necklaces or bracelets and used to raise awareness of 10:10's work: the organisation aimed to persuade individuals, organizations and businesses to reduce their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010.[11]. But the flight engineer summed it up at the time when he said: That was like thinking through treacle.. With nerves of steel, the captain, Eric Moody, miraculously landed the plane. That pleased me more than anything. There had been no hint of trouble when flight BA 009 took off from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia on the evening of 24 June, 1982. Although there were guidelines for the water landing procedure, no one had ever tried it in a Boeing 747, nor has anyone since. Moody displaying the cool-headed nature required of a pilot made the following announcement to his passengers: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. The reason for the failure was not immediately apparent to the crew or ground control. Moody's announcement was actually more than that. In 1982, a British Airways 747 flew into a cloud of volcanic ash near Indonesia. The only way to go faster, and avoiding stalling, was to take a steeper approach. And they were working equally as hard as me. The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. WebMoody was then transferred to FBI Headquarters, OC Section, Criminal Investigative Division. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. Sorry. The near-miss was compared to the 1977 Tenerife Airport disaster, the deadliest aviation accident of all time, in which 583 people were killed after two Boeing 747s collided on the runway. Officers selected for but not promoted to the next higher grade must specifically decline promotion in their retirement in lieu of orders (RILO) request. The events around one British Airways flight in 1982 reveal the potential dangers of this sort of dust. With nerves of steel, the captain, Eric Moody, miraculously landed the plane. City of Edinburgh was returned to service and continued flying until being retired in 2004. Aviation safety advances helped stave off BA plane fire disaster, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Jan 31 Saints and Broncos are finalizing compensation in return for Super Bowl-winning HC Sean Payton, sources tell ESPN. Broncos fans: 0:11 1.6M views WebMoody was then transferred to FBI Headquarters, OC Section, Criminal Investigative Division. We have a small problem. This allowed the 747 to climb but Moody says there was no sense of elation. The experience of Capt Moody, almost 30 years ago, shows the potential danger clouds of volcanic ash present to modern jet aircraft. We have a small problem. You can say its in my blood. We are all doing our damnedest to get them going again. It was, in Moody's words, "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse. Henkey, who has been a pilot for 42 years, issued a mayday call and brought the plane to a stop. I trust you are not in too much distress. A feature film starring Tom Hanks followed. [3], At approximately 13:42 UTC (20:42 Jakarta time), engine number four began surging and soon flamed out. The plane landed in Jakarta. This is your captain speaking. "That's not unusual in high wispy cloud. Fortunately the incident ended happily, with the 46-year-old landing safely. The plane was a write-off - the nose gear collapsed, the right main gear separated from the aircraft, penetrating a fuel tank, and the left main gear was pushed up through the wing - but just one passenger had suffered a serious injury by the time it came to a halt beside the threshold markings at the start of the runway. All four engines have stopped. Our first thoughts were it was a bomb.". The City of Edinburgh had been cruising at 37,000 feet over the ocean on a June night w It was scrapped at Bournemouth Airport, Dorset, England, in 2009. here's Wikipedia's description of the incident: Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, The crew's intense focus on the problem (without false assurances that they could fix it), Concern for the well-being of the passengers (without being patronizing). WebCaptain Moody served with British Airways for 32 years, retiring in 1996 with over 17,000 flight hours. Minutes later there were no working engines left. While the crew on the flight deck were frantically trying to figure out the cause of this freak failure, many passengers were largely unaware that anything was wrong. Say goodbye to worktime boredom. This explanation might well account for cases like that of Captain Moody. The aircraft was able to glide far enough to exit the ash cloud, and all engines were restarted (although one failed again soon after), allowing the aircraft to land safely at the Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta. The crew worked together to create a virtual glideslope using the localiser and distance measuring equipment. On the flight deck, however, Greaves's mask was broken; the delivery tube had detached from the rest of the mask. Its a common tale, even said to have happened to Marie Antoinette. Pilots Malcolm Waters and David Hayhoe were given the Polaris Award - from the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations - for their heroism. I was always brought up to expect the aeroplane might break any minute, he adds. However, it soon began to grow thicker and had an ominous odour of sulphur. One of the first signs of a problem came when smoke began to accumulate in the cabin. The pilot chose to continue to accelerate and performed a steep take-off, avoiding a collision by just 19 metres (62 feet). Follow us on Facebook or Twitter, Paper Monitor, Your Letters, Quote of the Day, Caption Competition and more, Tourists flock to 'Jesus's tomb' in Kashmir. That changed 5 years later when he visited BOAC flying boat captains with his father and heard the stories about their lives. We have a small problem. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. And I found that difficult because the internal telephone system wasn't working. WebPresident, Moodys Analytics: Michael West: President, Moodys Investors Service: John J. Goggins: Executive Vice President & General Counsel: Senior Vice Presidents; Maral Kazanjian: Chief People Officer: Scott Kenney: Risk Management & Chief Audit Executive: David Platt: Chief Strategy Officer Caroline Sullivan [9] G-BDXH's engineless flight entered the Guinness Book of Records as the longest glide in a non-purpose-built aircraft. From November, 1981, to September, 1986, he coordinated all the FBIs Labor Racketeering investigations. The sky was clear and the crew were happy because they had some extra Malaysian satay that night. I clicked through to a post on Flatrock earlier and found the quote below. Gliding as low as 12,000 feet, they turned back towards Indonesia. In perhaps historys most famous forced landing, Captain Chelsey Sully Sullenberger successfully crash-landed US Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River after the plane hit a large flock of birds and both engines were disabled. Airmanship is as important as technical flying skills but harder to teach. A nearly identical incident occurred on 15 December 1989 when KLM Flight 867, a Boeing 747-400 from Amsterdam to Anchorage, Alaska, flew into the plume of the erupting Mount Redoubt, causing all four engines to fail due to compressor stall. It wasnt until later, when he, his crew and the 247 passengers on board the flight, were safely back on the ground, that Moody discovered the cause of the narrowly averted catastrophe volcanic ash. as well as other partner offers and accept our. Moody's announcement was actually more than that. "The commander's decision to land the aircraft immediately on the runway remaining was sensible in the circumstances," anAir Accidents Investigation Branch report concluded. We did it through a very good bit of crew cooperation. British Airways Flight 9from Heathrow to Auckland was passing over Jakarta when it ran into volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four of the 747's engines. "; The passenger jet effectively turned into a glider, Capt Moody accepting an award after his safe handling of the crisis, Clare Wickett, a flight attendant on BA 009, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites, How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire, Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit, How Captain Eric Moodys brush with volcanic ash became aircraft lore-2 hrs ago, Why is volcanic ash a threat? In his calmest pilots voice Moody made an announcement: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, This is your captain speaking. Within seconds, and almost simultaneously, engines one and three flamed out, prompting the flight engineer to exclaim, "I don't believe itall four engines have failed!"[3]. She was given steroids, which treated the hair loss successfully, but within a few weeks all her hair had turned white, even though she had not had a frightening experience and had stopped losing her hair. Will do best for boys. As Flight 9 approached Jakarta, the crew found it difficult to see anything through the windscreen, and made the approach almost entirely on instruments, despite reports of good visibility. Its where you come from.. Hair gets its colour from two types of melanin pigment eumelanin which dictates how dark the hair is, and pheomelanin which determines how red or yellow it is. Born in Savannah, Ga and growing up in Hinesville, I was always close to saltwater. Pa XXX"), while Moody calculated how far the plane might be able to glide before reaching sea level (91 miles he deduced, from its flight level of 37,000 feet). With insufficient oxygen masks for those on board, co-pilot Alastair Atchison, who was also helping hold Lancaster inside the aircraft, made a rapid emergency descent and searched for the nearest airport. One of the passengers, Betty Tootell, wrote a book about the incident, All Four Engines Have Failed. All four engines have stopped. Without engine thrust, a 747-200 has a glide ratio of approximately 15:1, meaning it can glide forward 15 kilometres for every kilometre it drops. The crew decided that if the aircraft was unable to maintain altitude by the time they reached 12,000 feet (3,700m) they would turn back out to sea and attempt to ditch into the Indian Ocean. SIMON: So your plane's going down. Henkey is the latest man and all these heroes are men, owing to an industry where women are still an extreme minority to join the ranks of airplane pilots who demonstrated quick thinking in the face of destruction. And the airplane actually landed itself. Im Captain Eric Moody, a native of coastal Georgia and a full time resident of Jekyll Island for over 25 years with 16 of those years has been spent as a fishing guide. Yet there is something about the idea of hair changing colour through shock that is fascinating. "Engine failure number four engine failure number two," he said. WebDespite the lack of time, Moody made an announcement to the passengers that has been described as "a masterpiece of understatement": Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Find out more, The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, Heroic pilots earn praise - and sometimes even bundles of cash, Chesley Sullenberger III: great name, great pilot, Senior First Officer John Coward and Captain Peter Burkhill, Two China Eastern Airlines planes were involved in the near-miss, The five best spa hotels in the New Forest, Why Australia is the greatest country for wildlife lovers, How cyclists are taking over Europe's cities and why it's a good thing. Pearson initially thought a fuel pump had failed but soon realized the engines had lost power, and was able to glide the Boeing 767-233 safely to an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park airport. Jan 31 Saints and Broncos are finalizing compensation in return for Super Bowl-winning HC Sean Payton, sources tell ESPN. Broncos fans: 0:11 1.6M views We were down at 12,000 feet then. https://www.seafarerinnandsuites.com/. It can be exacerbated by stress, which could account for the association of white hair with terrifying experiences. The second engine failed 30 seconds later and the other two shortly afterwards. I trust you are not in too much distress.. If an exceptional speechwriter had spent a week composing the message, he or she couldn't have done better. It was a masterpiece, period. But as they flew over Java, an engine failed. Copyright 2010 NPR. We are all doing our damnedest to get them going again. Moody, first officer Roger Greaves and flight engineer Barry Townley-Freeman had no idea what had caused the unprecedented and statistically improbable multiple failure. When I first moved to Jekyll from just up the coast my first job was as a waterski/wakeboard instructor at the now closed Ski Rixen Waterski Park where Tidelands Nature Center now resides. All four engines have stopped. There's no airborne ash detector that's marketed. And we had to wait another minute and 20 seconds; another one started up very slowly, as they'd run down. Captain Moody is not alone. Despite the crew "squawking" the emergency transponder setting of 7700, the aeroplane could not be located by Air Traffic Control on their radar screens. Here are five other pilots who managed remarkable emergency landings. There was no book for us, he says from his home in England. It wasn't until later, when Capt Moody, his crew and the 247 passengers on board the flight, were safely back on the ground, that he discovered the cause of the narrowly averted catastrophe - volcanic ash. And about 100 over the runway I sank back into the seat and said, well, that's it, lads. 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