Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 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. "[10], British Airways continued to operate the Flight 9 route from London Heathrow to Sydney; in March 2012 the route was curtailed to Bangkok. The City of Edinburgh had been cruising at 37,000 feet over the ocean on a June night w Little has changed since our flight. Despite the weather radar showing clear skies, the crew switched on engine anti-ice and the passenger seat belt signs as a precaution. Gliding as low as 12,000 feet, they turned back towards Indonesia. It was a masterpiece, period. We have a small problem. But 10 years ago it had a very close call. 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. The great rewilding debate should we be returning eagles and wolves to our national parks? He obtained his private pilot licence at 17 flying Hornet Moths, Tiger Moths and Chipmunks and from there it was off to the BOAC training college at Hamble. Captain Bryce McCormick, who initially believed the plane had suffered a mid-air collision, declared an emergency, while flight attendants took oxygen to passengers (masks did not deploy because the plane was below the 14,000ft limit). Ultimately, to study exactly what happens you would need to examine the hair before and after a shocking incident, carefully assessing its colour and thickness. A build-up of ice crystals had caused a restriction in the flow of fuel. 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 the airspace around Mount Galunggung was closed temporarily after the incident, it was reopened days later. As the aircraft approached its target altitude, the St Elmo's fire effect on the windscreen returned. And I found that difficult because the internal telephone system wasn't working. The aircraft was diverted to Jakarta in the hope that enough engines could be restarted to allow it to land there. We have a small problem. The only training we had gotten for a water landing was reading a few paragraphs in a manual and having a brief classroom discussion, he said. In his calmest pilots voice Moody made an announcement: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, This is your captain speaking. So the story had a happy ending. Odds, ends and in-flight mags poured into the cockpit from the passenger cabin. Moody's announcement was actually more than that. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. The remains of the aircraft involved in the Miracle of the Hudson,anAirbus A320 (registrationN106US) was sent to theCarolinas Aviation Museumin Charlotte, NC. Moody displaying the cool-headed nature required of a pilot made the following announcement to his passengers: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. They had no idea what was causing the flame-outs. That pleased me more than anything. The pilot chose to continue to accelerate and performed a steep take-off, avoiding a collision by just 19 metres (62 feet). SIMON: They are several hundred people that I bet feel they owe their lives to you and your crew. Burkill took the instinctive decision to bring in the aircraft's flaps in a last-ditch attempt to reduce drag and give the plane a chance of clearing Hatton Cross. The flight crew immediately performed the engine shutdown drill, quickly cutting off fuel supply and arming the fire extinguishers. And then 30 seconds later the other two started up. "We were about to stall and fall out of the sky," said Captain Peter Burkill in an interview two years later. 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. The minimum time in grade to be considered eligible for retirement is two years. Then theres a more recent case study of a 54-year-old woman in Switzerland who had a small patch of hair loss. All they knew was that the jumbo jet, which was en route to Perth from Kuala Lumpur as part of a London-Auckland trip, had become a glider. Will do best for boys. WebCaptain Moody served with British Airways for 32 years, retiring in 1996 with over 17,000 flight hours. Read about our approach to external linking. Born in Savannah, Ga and growing up in Hinesville, I was always close All four engines have stopped. The experience of Capt Moody, almost 30 years ago, shows the potential danger clouds of volcanic ash present to modern jet aircraft. In 1970, an ALM flight from New York to the island of St Maarten ran out of fuel following three landing attempts in adverse weather, and was ultimately forced to land in the Caribbean Sea. One of the passengers, Betty Tootell, wrote a book about the incident, All Four Engines Have Failed. You can say its in my blood. The sky was clear and the crew were happy because they had some extra Malaysian satay that night. We have a small problem. 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. Always consult your own GP if you're in any way concerned about your health. With cabin pressure dropping, the flight crew needs to get on oxygen but the first officers mask has problems and there is a risk he might succumb to hypoxia. 56,514 people are reading stories on the site right now. "That's not unusual in high wispy cloud. But this doesnt explain other anecdotal tales, for instance in young people who would have so few white hairs that if all their darker hair fell any white hairs remaining would be very sparse. Say goodbye to worktime boredom. And we had to wait another minute and 20 seconds; another one started up very slowly, as they'd run down. Effective date of retirement is no later than August 1, 2022. The overnight cases like Marie Antoinettes are harder to explain. The reason for the failure was not immediately apparent to the crew or ground control. Shortly after 13:40 UTC (20:40 Jakarta time) above the Indian Ocean, south of Java, the flight crew (consisting of Senior First Officer Roger Greaves and Senior Engineer Officer Barry Townley-Freeman while Captain Eric Moody was in the lavatory) first noted an effect on the windscreen similar to St Elmo's fire. MOODY: Well, it was sheer bloody-mindedness and persistence. The first sign that something untoward was happening had been unusually intense St Elmos fire playing across the windscreen accompanied by an acrid smoke. Capt Moody was piloting a 263-seater British Airways Boeing 747 flight from London to Auckland in June 1982 when he ran into an ash plume erupting from Mount Galunggung in Java, Indonesia. A British Airlines flight 30 years ago flew through a cloud of volcanic ash off the coast of Indonesia. The events around one British Airways flight in 1982 reveal the potential dangers of this sort of dust. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. And thats something thats not changed at all. All four engines have stopped. Landing in gusty conditions is a minor inconvenience for any pilot. All four engines have stopped. Capt Moody was piloting a 263-seater British Airways Boeing 747 flight from London to Auckland in June 1982 when he ran into an ash plume erupting from Mount Galunggung in Java, Indonesia. We got two or three thousand feet of clear air. But that alone wasn't enough to cause alarm, Capt Moody says, recalling the events when he spoke to BBC's Good Morning Scotland on Thursday. By that time, the jet had been gliding for 13 minutes without engines with the crew working hard to restart them. Pilots Malcolm Waters and David Hayhoe were given the Polaris Award - from the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations - for their heroism. As he climbed the stairs of the Jumbo he noticed puffs of "smoke" billowing from the vents in the floor and detected an acrid smell. "; 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? Effective date of retirement is no later than August 1, 2022. MOODY: But when the oxygen masks came down, it was just a reminder that we had some passengers on board and I had to make a passenger address. The pilot of a British Airways jet that was forced to abandon its takeoff after an engine burst into flames has been lauded for averting a potential disaster. 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 His head and torso were outdoors at 17,300 feet and being battered by 300mph winds while his legs remained inside, with flight attendants gripping him tightly. The BBC is not responsible or liable for any diagnosis made by a user based on the content of this site. Ahoy there! By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider The City of Edinburgh had been cruising at 37,000 feet over the ocean on a June night w Will do best for boys. As they performed the engine restart procedure, engine number four finally started, and at 13:56 UTC (20:56 Jakarta time), Moody used its power to reduce the rate of descent. 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. Most Popular Now | 56,514 people are reading stories on the site right now. We have a small problem. A dry sense of perspective that probably did more to relax the passengers than thousands of words of explanation ever could have. There were 152 people on board and we were all going to die.". Up in the cockpit, Moody and his team were working overtime. 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. 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. The minimum time in grade to be considered eligible for retirement is two years. Gliding as low as 12,000 feet, they turned back towards Indonesia. There was no book for us, he says from his home in England. 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. Reports suggested there were a total of 413 passengers and 26 crew on board the two planes. I am old enough to remember this incident, but I had forgotten something important about it: What the plane's captain said to the passengers the moment after the engines failed. We have a small problem. And we got to 13,000 feet and one engine started. I don't - I'm not that demonstrative, no. 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. Moody displaying the cool-headed nature required of a pilot made the following announcement to his passengers: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It was only after a nearby Garuda Indonesia flight relayed the message to Air Traffic Control that it was correctly understood. During the struggle, the plane was forced into a roll just before impact with the water, causing the craft to break into three pieces. However, due to the sound of rushing air, he could not hear air traffic control. SIMON: So your plane's going down. [6] The crew subsequently requested and expedited an increase in altitude in order to clear the high mountains of Indonesia.[7]. WebSingle Family Office. And If Id tried to do things by the book, I dont know whether wed still be here.. This is precisely what happened to one Flybe captain in 2014. And quite honestly, it would probably be too heavy to make commercial sense. Eric Moody THE HAMPSHIRE pilot of the infamous 1982 British Airways Flight 9 incident today said he believed the Malaysian Airlines MH370 was brought down deliberately. Minutes later there were no working engines left. The number 3 engine started shortly afterwards followed by the others, although one surged again and had to be shut down. One such passenger was Charles Capewell, who scrawled "Ma. Moody hadnt a clue why. The BBC is not liable for the contents of any external internet sites listed, nor does it endorse any commercial product or service mentioned or advised on any of the sites. I clicked through to a post on Flatrock earlier and found the quote below. When he opened the door to the cockpit he saw the windscreen ablaze with a St Elmo's fire - a discharge of static electricity. The report went on: "He did this, but with power still applied and possibly a gust affecting the aircraft, a normal touchdown was followed by a bounce, from which the aircraft landed heavily. In 1982, a pilot called Captain Eric Moody was all ready for quiet overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Perth. With nerves of steel, the captain, Eric Moody, miraculously landed the plane. Hackett took the unorthodox decision to immediately re-land at Stansted rather than climb away and touch down later. same chemical used to bleach hair from bottles. This explanation might well account for cases like that of Captain Moody. He eventually landed safely in Southampton, where Lancaster was treated for frostbite, shock and a broken arm. We love you. He just wanted to get the plane on the ground. [3] Flight 9 was not the first encounter with this eruption a Garuda DC-9 had encountered ash on 5 April 1982.[8]. As the flight progressed, smoke began to accumulate in the passenger cabin of the aircraft; it was first assumed to be cigarette smoke. I trust you are not in too much distress.". "The whole night sky lit up. The events around one British Airways flight in 1982 reveal the potential dangers of this sort of dust. 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. And the airplane actually landed itself. In this remarkable incident, on board a BA flight to Malaga with 81 passengers, a badly-fitted windscreen panel failed, sucking the captain, Tim Lancaster, halfway out of the cockpit. Up in the cockpit, Moody and his team were working overtime. We have a small problem. "We glided from 37,000ft to 12,000ft before we got [the engines] going again," recalls Capt Moody. Needing time to calmly consider his options, Capt Moody used autopilot to put the plane into a gentle descent, and instructed his first officer to issue a mayday call. 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 Then Capt Moody's flight engineer detailed the impact the dust was having on the aircraft itself. Eric Moody also showed little sign of being terrified as he managed to make an emergency landing at Jakarta airport later he discovered that a plume of ash from a volcano had knocked out all four engines. The crew immediately descended and held 12,000 feet (3,700m). 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). The cloud sandblasted the windscreen and landing light covers and clogged the engines. Moody's announcement was actually more than that. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. We just kept trying. The aircraft flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung (approximately 180 kilometres (110mi) south-east of Jakarta, Indonesia), resulting in the failure of all four engines. As pressure within the cabin fell, oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling an automatic emergency measure to make up for the lack of air. In this photo taken from the view of a plane window, smoke billows out from a plane that caught fire at McCarran international airport. We could find the centreline of the runway but I had no glideslope, he said. [3], At approximately 13:42 UTC (20:42 Jakarta time), engine number four began surging and soon flamed out. In some cases the white hairs are unaffected by the condition. But quite honestly, a pilot flies his feet, and wherever he goes the rest of the airplane follows. The only way to go faster, and avoiding stalling, was to take a steeper approach. 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. The Boeing 747's engines caught on fire and stopped, causing the plane to go down. 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. But within six months of the incident he noticed that the tip of his quiff had turned white. We have a small problem. Now nicknamed the Gimli Glider, Air Canada flight 143 was flying from Montreal to Edmonton on 23 July 1983, when the plane ran out of fuel at 41,000ft. In a similar incident to BA Flight 38, this Cathay Pacific service from Surabaya Juanda International Airport in Indonesia suddenly lost the ability to change thrust as it neared Hong Kong, landing at almost twice the recommended speed. Because the ash cloud was dry, it did not appear on the weather radar, which was designed to detect the moisture in clouds. So Fred developed this but he couldn't find anybody to put it into production. A total of 40 passengers, including 18 Leeds players, and four crew were on board theHawker Siddeley 748 as it barrelled down the runway at Stansted Airport, bound for Leeds-Bradford. "[1] Although the runway lights could be made out through a small strip of the windscreen, the landing lights on the aircraft seemed to be inoperable. "It was, yeah, a little bit frightening.". The plane landed safety in Jakarta despite the almost total lack of visibility. After being ferried back to London, engine number four was replaced and major work was undertaken to return the aircraft to service. Accuracy and availability may vary. Our first thoughts were it was a bomb.". Officers selected for but not promoted to the next higher grade must specifically decline promotion in their retirement in lieu of orders (RILO) request. All four engines have stopped. Reflecting on the chilling events of that flight 28 years later, Capt Moody, who lives in Camberley in Surrey, shows the sort of understatement characteristic of those in his profession. It was two days before investigators confirmed that volcanic ash had been responsible for the near disaster. To mark the 10th anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson, we recount the tales of heroic pilots who really earned their hefty salaries. Passengers reportedly scribbled notes to loved ones (one, by Charles Capewell, read: "Ma. 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. I think airmanship is at the bottom of it all. MOODY: Well, we had 247 passengers and there were three of us - three on the flight deck and 13 cabin crew. But eventually, when the passenger oxygen masks dropped as the plane steepened its descent, the news had to be announced. They had no idea what was causing the flame-outs. 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 "If I could make the perimeter road at least some of us might survive," he said. An investigation found that air traffic control was to blame, and while Mr He was rewarded for his actions with a cash bonus equivalent to around 360,000, two air traffic controllers had their licenses revoked. Officers selected for but not promoted to the next higher grade must specifically decline promotion in their retirement in lieu of orders (RILO) request. 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. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. New York, New York, United States. 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]. Furthermore, the dust sandblasted the windscreen, making it almost impossible to see. 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. She notes: "The 28th December 2006 marks the start of our 14th year of honeymoon, and on the 24th June 2007 many passengers and crew will no doubt gather to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our mid-air adventure. However, it soon began to grow thicker and had an ominous odour of sulphur. It was, in Moody's words, "a bit like negotiating one's way up abadger's arse.". The crew began engine restart drills, despite being well above the recommended maximum engine in-flight start envelope altitude of 28,000 feet (8,500m). Moody throttled back; however, engine number two surged again and was shut down. Born in Savannah, Ga and growing up in Hinesville, I was always close Despite the crew "squawking" the emergency transponder setting of 7700, the aeroplane could not be located by Air Traffic Control on their radar screens. But it developed into something more than we'd ever seen before.". It wasn't me any more than the other two on the flight deck. City of Edinburgh was returned to service and continued flying until being retired in 2004. And there's no doubt if we'd gone to the bottom of the Java Trench of Indonesia, which is about, I think, six or seven thousand feet deep, I think to this day I'd have still be getting the blame. And here's Wikipedia's description of the incident: British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to by its callsign Speedbird 9 or Jakarta incident,[1] was a scheduled British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Auckland, with stops in Bombay, Madras, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Melbourne. 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. Fortunately, all other passengers were belted up, and the pilot - Robert Schornstheimer - managed to land 13 minutes later, avoiding further loss of life. Naturally, there was concern in the cockpit, with the flight engineer exclaiming: "I don't believe it - all four engines have failed!" The findings were eventually incorporated into a report on the dangers of volcanic ash to aircraft. SIMON: I mean, the engines were choking with volcanic ash, right? It was the first officer, co-pilot, it was - and the flight engineer. And they were working equally as hard as me. 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. As the ash entered the engines, it melted in the combustion chambers and adhered to the inside of the power-plant. Heading for Perth, Australia, the weather forecast for the five-hour journey was good and the crew were anticipating an uneventful flight. Eric Moody THE HAMPSHIRE pilot of the infamous 1982 British Airways Flight 9 incident today said he believed the Malaysian Airlines MH370 was brought down deliberately. Many passengers, fearing for their lives, wrote notes to relatives. Im married to the lovely Claire Moody who is the General Manger of the Seafarer Inn and Suites on Jekyll. From November, 1981, to September, 1986, he coordinated all the FBIs Labor Racketeering investigations. New York, New York, United States. In September 2009 the environmental group 10:10 bought the fuselage of City Of Edinburgh to be made into tags. One by one, all four of its engines failed. Following the incident, the crew and passengers formed the Galunggung Gliding Club as a means to keep in contact. Can hair really turn white overnight? WebMoody was then transferred to FBI Headquarters, OC Section, Criminal Investigative Division. This is your captain speaking. It wasnt until sometime after landing that the crew discovered volcanic ash was the cause of the engine failures. 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. Captain Eric Moody gave an interview to the July 2010 edition of Flaps Podcast, where he recounted his experience. 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