Hackett took the unorthodox decision to immediately re-land at Stansted rather than climb away and touch down later. The minimum time in grade to be considered eligible for retirement is two years. But 10 years ago it had a very close call. Landing in gusty conditions is a minor inconvenience for any pilot. Moody decides on an emergency descent rather than lose a valuable crew member but Greaves manages to fix the mask and the crew reduces the descent rate as it passes through 20,000 feet. Born in Savannah, Ga and growing up in Hinesville, I was always close to saltwater. [9] G-BDXH's engineless flight entered the Guinness Book of Records as the longest glide in a non-purpose-built aircraft. This is your captain speaking. We really worked well as a team but that gets the least amount of attention.. SIMON: So when did you find out that it was - you'd run into a volcano? Plane going down. The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. "For an aircraft travelling at about 125mph, that's carnage. Captain Moody is not alone. Nevertheless, he was back at work in less than five months. Moody's announcement was actually more than that. The process behind this is not well understood. Captain Chris Henkey and the crew of the Boeing 777-200 bound for Londons Gatwick airport from Las Vegas had to abandon the takeoff partway down the runway when one of the two engines caught fire. 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. 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. Moody hadnt a clue why. We have a small problem. Engines one, two and three were replaced at Jakarta, as well as the windscreen, and the fuel tanks were cleared of the ash that had entered them through the pressurisation ducts, contaminating the fuel and requiring that it be disposed of. "[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. 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. The pilot chose to continue to accelerate and performed a steep take-off, avoiding a collision by just 19 metres (62 feet). All four engines have stopped. This is your captain speaking. Officers selected for but not promoted to the next higher grade must specifically decline promotion in their retirement in lieu of orders (RILO) request. What do you do? They'd stopped back up at 37,000 feet. Shortly after that, engines one and two successfully restarted as well. "We were heading straight for the buildings around Hatton Cross Tube station," Burkill recalled. 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. So the story had a happy ending. We have a small problem. What now for Paul the eight-limbed oracle? WebCaptain Eric Moody was later praised for a cabin announcement that was described as "a masterpiece of understatement." https://www.seafarerinnandsuites.com/. A dry sense of perspective that probably did more to relax the passengers than thousands of words of explanation ever could have. British Airways, including its subsidiaries, has been involved in just three fatal accidents - and none since 1985. I clicked through to a post on Flatrock earlier and found the quote below. The resulting explosive decompression tore off a larger section of the roof, and a 57-year-old flight attendant called Clarabelle Lansing was swept from her seat and out of the hole in the aircraft. A plume of volcanic ash from Iceland has led to flights across the UK being grounded. Moody displaying the cool-headed nature required of a pilot made the following announcement to his passengers: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It is thought to be caused by an auto-immune response, where the bodys defence system turns on itself. New York, New York, United States. Sorry. MOODY: Yeah, they were. The best explanation for it is not that the hair changes colour, but that the pigmented hairs fall out. The medical name for the sudden whitening of the hair is canities subita. It was, in Moody's words, "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse. The restaurants actually worth dining at near 11 of Europe's biggest tourist traps, Sully,a veteran pilot with 19,663 hours of flying experience, revealed to Telegraph Travel last year, this Cathay Pacific service from Surabaya Juanda International Airport, This is precisely what happened to one Flybe captain. In September 2009 the environmental group 10:10 bought the fuselage of City Of Edinburgh to be made into tags. WebMoody was then transferred to FBI Headquarters, OC Section, Criminal Investigative Division. "Not a day goes by without it crossing my mind," he told the BBC last year. 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. We got two or three thousand feet of clear air. 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. Moody hadnt a clue why. We have a small problem. Officers selected for but not promoted to the next higher grade must specifically decline promotion in their retirement in lieu of orders (RILO) request. Copyright Civil Aviation Safety Authority Australia, Captain Moodys wisdom: the aeroplane might break any minute. Then he ordered the evacuation of the 157 passengers and 13 crew members. Coastal Expeditions Charter Fishing and Dolphin Cruises. 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 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? The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. In 1996, a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed into the ocean near the Comoros Islands after running out of fuel. "It was, yeah, a little bit frightening.". 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. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. It was the first officer, co-pilot, it was - and the flight engineer. As it left Detroit on 12 June 1972, American Airlines flight 96 from LA to New York lost its rear cargo door, causing a decompression explosion. 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. When he opened the door to the cockpit he saw the windscreen ablaze with a St Elmo's fire - a discharge of static electricity. We are all doing our damnedest to get them going again. After leaving the ground, however, a turbine disc failure set the right engine alight and caused panic on board. 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. We could find the centreline of the runway but I had no glideslope, he said. Can hair really turn white overnight? The City of Edinburgh had been cruising at 37,000 feet over the ocean on a June night w 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. 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. 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. 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. Out of the 175 people on board, 125 died in the accident. Its a common tale, even said to have happened to Marie Antoinette. WebCaptain Moody served with British Airways for 32 years, retiring in 1996 with over 17,000 flight hours. The only way to go faster, and avoiding stalling, was to take a steeper approach. [6] The crew subsequently requested and expedited an increase in altitude in order to clear the high mountains of Indonesia.[7]. Then theres a more recent case study of a 54-year-old woman in Switzerland who had a small patch of hair loss. 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. Born in Savannah, Ga and growing up in Hinesville, I was always close The windscreen had been effectively sandblasted by the ash and, while the instruments on the aircraft were working, that wasnt true of the instrument landing system (ILS) in Jakarta. Our first thoughts were it was a bomb.". The minimum time in grade to be considered eligible for retirement is two years. "We were about to stall and fall out of the sky," said Captain Peter Burkill in an interview two years later. [1] The phenomenon persisted after Moody returned from the lavatory. 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. 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. 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 immediately descended and held 12,000 feet (3,700m). Chesley Sullenberger III, at the helm of US Airways Flight 1549, managed to land safely on the Hudson River after a flock of Canada geese disabled both the aircrafts engines just 2,818 feet above the ground. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. There are times, he tells Flight Safety Australia, that pilots need to work outside the rules and this was one of them. 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. If an exceptional speechwriter had spent a week composing the message, he or she couldn't have done better. -16 hrs ago, Why Volcanic Ash Is So Dangerous-27 hrs ago, How a volcano brought Europe to a standstill, How volcanoes occur, in graphics and text, How elephants helped to shape human history, by David Cannadine, Justin Webb on America's love affair with progress. I don't - I'm not that demonstrative, no. Yet there is something about the idea of hair changing colour through shock that is fascinating. Moody's announcement was actually more than that. It was a masterpiece, period. It was, in Moody's words, "a bit like negotiating one's way up abadger's arse.". This is your captain speaking. From November, 1981, to September, 1986, he coordinated all the FBIs Labor Racketeering investigations. By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. New York, New York, United States. Eventually, the engines came back to life after the molten ash that clogged the engines solidified and broke off. The plane, with first officer, the ironically named John Coward, at the controls, landed around 270 metres short of the runway, just beyond the A30. They calculated the giant Boeing could glide for less than 25 minutes from 37,000 feet and there was a problem with high mountains between the aircraft and Jakarta. Aviation safety advances helped stave off BA plane fire disaster, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The findings were eventually incorporated into a report on the dangers of volcanic ash to aircraft. 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. Moody's announcement was actually more than that. I trust you are not in too much distress. Once the flight cleared the ash cloud, the crew was able to restart each engine and then make a safe landing at Anchorage.[12]. Sullenberger, now retired, speaks internationally on airline safety. MOODY: No, they're not. Host Scott Simon talks to the retired pilot about the current cloud of volcanic ash drifting across Europe, and how airlines will have to cope. The puzzle of whether your hair can turn grey sounds like a simple one for medical science to solve, but its not. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. And quite honestly, it would probably be too heavy to make commercial sense. 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. Maybe its the idea that the body reveals more than we think, that underneath the impressive calmness which allowed Captain Moody to save the lives of 247 passengers, his body was telling a different story. Moody displaying the cool-headed nature required of a pilot made the following announcement to his passengers: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. MOODY: So we glided 25,000 feet. All four engines have stopped. Oxygen bags are deployed. 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. All four engines have stopped. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. All four engines have stopped. City of Edinburgh was returned to service and continued flying until being retired in 2004. City of Edinburgh, later renamed City of Elgin, continued to fly for British Airways after the incident, before being sold to European Aviation Air Charter. All four engines on a Boeing 747 failed at 37,000ft after the plane flew through volcanic ash while passing over Jakarta on 24 June 1982. The Boeing 747's engines caught on fire and stopped, causing the plane to go down. "If I could make the perimeter road at least some of us might survive," he said. The minimum time in grade to be considered eligible for retirement is two years. And we had to wait another minute and 20 seconds; another one started up very slowly, as they'd run down. A close examination of the plane revealed the damage a plume of these tiny particles can do to an engine - the tips of the turbine blades had been ground away. The first sign of trouble came as the plane, which had hit cruising height, headed past Java over the south-eastern Indian Ocean. Luckily, Captain Bob Pearson was an experienced glider pilot, guiding the 767 to RCAF Station Gimli. same chemical used to bleach hair from bottles. The reason for the failure was not immediately apparent to the crew or ground control. Ahoy there! In 37 short, direct, and simple words, Captain Moody conveyed the following: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. MOODY: We'll, we didn't find out for sure until two days later, which was quite a worrying period because pilots always think that they're going to get the blame for whatever happens in an airplane. A build-up of ice crystals had caused a restriction in the flow of fuel. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. SIMON: Are airliners better equipped to handle a volcano? 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