Its about this time Moody makes one of aviations most understated and famous passenger announcements: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. The overnight cases like Marie Antoinettes are harder to explain. 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. The plane headed back to Jakarta where it landed safely, though even then one of the engines had failed again. Airmanship is as important as technical flying skills but harder to teach. We have a small problem. Perhaps the best known incident of recent times, involving the most brilliantly monikered pilot. 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. 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. 56,514 people are reading stories on the site right now. But quite honestly, a pilot flies his feet, and wherever he goes the rest of the airplane follows. 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. 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. To mark the 10th anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson, we recount the tales of heroic pilots who really earned their hefty salaries. 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. 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]. The reason for the failure was not immediately apparent to the crew or ground control. They had no idea what was causing the flame-outs. If an exceptional speechwriter had spent a week composing the message, he or she couldn't have done better. He just wanted to get the plane on the ground. But as Claudia Hammond finds out, it is difficult to get to the root of the problem. Its just one of those things that you gain or you learn from other people and experience.. [9] G-BDXH's engineless flight entered the Guinness Book of Records as the longest glide in a non-purpose-built aircraft. 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. It was, in Moody's words, "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse. Eventually, after quarter of an hour without any power, the engines were brought back to life. He says pilots of his era expected things to go wrong and thought ahead about what they would do when that happened. By that time, the jet had been gliding for 13 minutes without engines with the crew working hard to restart them. All four engines have stopped. MOODY: Yeah, they were. In trouble. BA Flight 38, using a Boeing 777-200ER, had completed all but two miles of its 5,000-mile journey from Beijing to Heathrow when its engines suddenly failed to respond to the crews demand for extra thrust. And then another and another. We finish on a slightly comical note. Moody used autopilot to glide the plane into a gentle descent. Henkey, who has been a pilot for 42 years, issued a mayday call and brought the plane to a stop. Life-threatening situations are not only rare, but unpredictable and no ethics committee is going to let you induce a sufficiently terrifying experience in a lab volunteer. Moody hadnt a clue why. We have a small problem. I trust you are not in too much distress.". New York, New York, United States. This is your captain speaking. MOODY: So we glided 25,000 feet. Moody hadnt a clue why. Sorry. 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 an industry where women are still an extreme minority, part of the planes windshield came loose. 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). This is precisely what happened to one Flybe captain in 2014. The same thing is said to have happened to several historical figures, but in a far shorter time frame. Within a year the rest of his hair had done the same. 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. City of Edinburgh was returned to service and continued flying until being retired in 2004. Moody displaying the cool-headed nature required of a pilot made the following announcement to his passengers: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. After being assessed for post-traumatic stress disorder, Burkill returned to the cockpit five months later. 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. Effective date of retirement is no later than August 1, 2022. The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Dec 2021 - Present1 year 2 months. 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. Many passengers, fearing for their lives, wrote notes to relatives. From November, 1981, to September, 1986, he coordinated all the FBIs Labor Racketeering investigations. 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. 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) All four engines have stopped. In some cases the white hairs are unaffected by the condition. As his aircraft was accelerating down the runway, however, a second China Eastern Airlines plane - an Airbus A330-300 arriving from Beijing - entered its path. There was plenty of time to think and there were three of us, Moody says. After being ferried back to London, engine number four was replaced and major work was undertaken to return the aircraft to service. I was always brought up to expect the aeroplane might break any minute, he adds. 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. The airliner, flown by Captain Eric Moody, lost thrust from all four engines at 37,000ft. Then he ordered the evacuation of the 157 passengers and 13 crew members. Although I was actually flying - hand flying the airplane. The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Always consult your own GP if you're in any way concerned about your health. Airports are being closed across the UK after dust which spewed from a volcano in Iceland, began drifting southwards. 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. All four engines have stopped. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops delivered daily to your inbox. -3 hrs ago, What volcanic ash does to planes-13 hrs ago, Why is volcanic ash a threat to planes? 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. We have a small problem. 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. There were 152 people on board and we were all going to die.". When all four engines on the Boeing 747 being flown by Captain Eric Moody shut down at 37,000ft, he hadn't a clue why. We have a small problem. 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. Moody displaying the cool-headed nature required of a pilot made the following announcement to his passengers: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 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. After landing, the flight crew found it impossible to taxi, due to glare from apron floodlights which made the already sandblasted windscreen opaque. They had no idea what was causing the flame-outs. 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. Up in the cockpit, Moody and his team were working overtime. Check out her hotel! The findings were eventually incorporated into a report on the dangers of volcanic ash to aircraft. And thats something thats not changed at all. The first sign of trouble came as the plane, which had hit cruising height, headed past Java over the south-eastern Indian Ocean. Part of a Airbus 320 plane, US Airways flight 1549, sticks out of the Hudson River near Battery Park City, where it was tied after it crashed in the river on 15 January 2009 in New York City. 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 remains of the aircraft involved in the Miracle of the Hudson,anAirbus A320 (registrationN106US) was sent to theCarolinas Aviation Museumin Charlotte, NC. Finding a new job with an accident on his record, however, proved difficult, and he rejoined the airline in 2010. 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. The airliner, flown by Captain Eric Moody, lost thrust from all four engines at 37,000ft. SIMON: Are airliners better equipped to handle a volcano? This raised the possibility BA9 might have to attempt an ocean ditching if the engines could not be restarted by 12,000 feet. 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. The restart attempts failed. Eventually, the engines came back to life after the molten ash that clogged the engines solidified and broke off. The events around one British Airways flight in 1982 reveal the potential dangers of this sort of dust. 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. It was the first officer, co-pilot, it was - and the flight engineer. It was scrapped at Bournemouth Airport, Dorset, England, in 2009. We have a small problem. It wasn't me any more than the other two on the flight deck. The plane had flown into a cloud of dust spewed out by an eruption of Mount Galunggung, 110 miles south east of Jakarta. Moody and his crew began trying to restart the engines, even though the number 4 engine was technically not allowed. 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. A fascinating picture of airmanship and teamwork. "Engine failure number four engine failure number two," he said. The landing was hard and fast Pearson had to brake so hard he blew two tyres, while the aircrafts nose fell off, starting a small fire but all 61 on board survived unharmed. His hair took a year to turn completely white. 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) This is your captain speaking. This explanation might well account for cases like that of Captain Moody. Up in the cockpit, Moody and his team were working overtime. The pilot had attempted a water landing while trying to fight off the hijackers. The plane was badly damaged, and stopped yard from the M11 motorway, but everyone on board survived and Hackett was praised for defying protocol. The minimum time in grade to be considered eligible for retirement is two years. A condition called alopecia ariata causes the hair shed suddenly, resulting in bald patches. Moody was just 3 years old when he expressed a desire to be fighter pilot after watching World War II dogfights over the Southampton docks. MOODY: Well, it was sheer bloody-mindedness and persistence. It blew four tyres when it landed, but no one was hurt. 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. Officers selected for but not promoted to the next higher grade must specifically decline promotion in their retirement in lieu of orders (RILO) request. 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. 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 have a small problem. After its closing I did what most young people do at a tourist destination and started waiting tables and bartending. Moody, first officer Roger Greaves and flight engineer Barry Townley-Freeman had no idea what had caused the unprecedented and statistically improbable multiple failure. I don't - I'm not that demonstrative, no. I trust you are not in too much distress. Eventually, the overall effect of a combination of coloured and colourless hair, especially in people with dark hair, is grey. SIMON: I mean, the engines were choking with volcanic ash, right? WebCaptain Eric Moody was later praised for a cabin announcement that was described as "a masterpiece of understatement." Or perhaps the immune response might target the pigment-producing system, which would explain why those no follicles no longer producing coloured hair are unaffected. The problem had not been spotted earlier because of an electronic fault on the aircrafts instrument panel, and the plane lost all power. A dry sense of perspective that probably did more to relax the passengers than thousands of words of explanation ever could have. In 1982, a British Airways 747 flew into a cloud of volcanic ash near Indonesia. SIMON: So your plane's going down. The City of Edinburgh had been cruising at 37,000 feet over the ocean on a June night w "The whole night sky lit up. 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. 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. The BBC is not responsible or liable for any diagnosis made by a user based on the content of this site. 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. Sign up for notifications from Insider! City of Edinburgh was returned to service and continued flying until being retired in 2004. All four engines have stopped. We have a small problem. Will do best for boys. 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. 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. Following the incident, the crew and passengers formed the Galunggung Gliding Club as a means to keep in contact. All four engines have stopped. The cloud sandblasted the windscreen and landing light covers and clogged the engines. Moody's announcement was actually more than that. same chemical used to bleach hair from bottles. The flight deck door was blown off, blocking the throttle control and causing the plane to accelerate towards the ground. MOODY: I mean you're the first person at the scene of an accident and you're the first person to get the blame for an accident. "Not a day goes by without it crossing my mind," he told the BBC last year. And I hand flew the airplane down. This allowed the 747 to climb but Moody says there was no sense of elation. You can hear more Medical Myths on Health Check on the BBC World Service. Luckily, at around 13,500 feet, and with a ditching in the ocean on the cards, the engines restarted successfully. Coastal Expeditions Charter Fishing and Dolphin Cruises. "It was, yeah, a little bit frightening.". SIMON: So when did you find out that it was - you'd run into a volcano? By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider We traveled 80 nautical miles forward, and 15,000 feet or so. 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 worked together to create a virtual glideslope using the localiser and distance measuring equipment. You just need the ability to think calmly through. American Airlines Flight 96 from LA to New York ran into trouble soon after a stopover in Detroit, when the rear cargo door suddenly broke off. Minutes later there were no working engines left. -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. Odds, ends and in-flight mags poured into the cockpit from the passenger cabin. In his calmest pilots voice Moody made an announcement: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, This is your captain speaking. The puzzle of whether your hair can turn grey sounds like a simple one for medical science to solve, but its not. The flight crew immediately performed the engine shutdown drill, quickly cutting off fuel supply and arming the fire extinguishers. [6] The crew subsequently requested and expedited an increase in altitude in order to clear the high mountains of Indonesia.[7]. 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. 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. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. The best explanation for it is not that the hair changes colour, but that the pigmented hairs fall out. 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. Sullenberger, now retired, speaks internationally on airline safety. 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. With nerves of steel, the captain, Eric Moody, miraculously landed the plane. Furthermore, the dust sandblasted the windscreen, making it almost impossible to see. They'd stopped back up at 37,000 feet. Although the airspace around Mount Galunggung was closed temporarily after the incident, it was reopened days later. Sorry. Part of the floor at the rear gave way, severing a control cable and disabling an engine. With nerves of steel, the captain, Eric Moody, miraculously landed the plane. Moody swiftly decided to descend at 1,800m per minute to an altitude where there was enough pressure in the outside atmosphere to breathe almost normally. The medical name for the sudden whitening of the hair is canities subita. A flight attendant grabbed Lancaster to keep him from flying away. After leaving the ground, however, a turbine disc failure set the right engine alight and caused panic on board. Its where you come from.. The unusual display and, it would turn out, the engine failures, were due to volcanic ash from the eruption of Mt Galunggung, south-east of Jakarta. The first sign that something untoward was happening had been unusually intense St Elmos fire playing across the windscreen accompanied by an acrid smoke. 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. At 13,500 feet (4,100m), the crew was approaching the altitude at which they would have to turn over the ocean and attempt a risky ditching. But he took voluntary redundancy in August 2009 and criticised BA over its handling of the incident, claiming he had been "hung out to dry". The minimum time in grade to be considered eligible for retirement is two years. 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. The engines had enough electrical power to restart because one generator and the onboard batteries were still operating; electrical power was required for ignition of the engines. Our first thoughts were it was a bomb.". One of the first signs of a problem came when smoke began to accumulate in the cabin. The City of Edinburgh had been cruising at 37,000 feet over the ocean on a June night w The stunning engine failure prompted the crew to declare an emergency and divert to Jakarta, putting the aircraft into a shallow descent and turning back towards land. During the struggle, the plane was forced into a roll just before impact with the water, causing the craft to break into three pieces. 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. New York, New York, United States. Then theres a more recent case study of a 54-year-old woman in Switzerland who had a small patch of hair loss. One by one, all four of its engines failed. And they were working equally as hard as me. Youll love it! In September 2009 the environmental group 10:10 bought the fuselage of City Of Edinburgh to be made into tags. 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. Copyright 2010 NPR. Captain Eric Moody gave an interview to the July 2010 edition of Flaps Podcast, where he recounted his experience. We have a small problem. The second engine failed 30 seconds later and the other two shortly afterwards. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. [1] The phenomenon persisted after Moody returned from the lavatory. The minimum time in grade to be considered eligible for retirement is two years. It was, says Moody, a classic case of airmanship and cooperation between the flight crew. The events around one British Airways flight in 1982 reveal the potential dangers of this sort of dust. All four engines have stopped. In 37 short, direct, and simple words, Captain Moody conveyed the following: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. 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. Dec 2021 - Present1 year 2 months. 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. Engine number 2 exploded over Indonesia, damaging a wing and causing a fuel tank fire, forcing the plane, an A380 with 469 people on board, to make an emergency landing in Singapore. Plane going down. The experience of Capt Moody, almost 30 years ago, shows the potential danger clouds of volcanic ash present to modern jet aircraft. Gliding as low as 12,000 feet, they turned back towards Indonesia. Shortly thereafter, engine three restarted, allowing him to climb slowly. But the flight engineer summed it up at the time when he said: That was like thinking through treacle.. 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. We have a small problem. 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. It is thought to be caused by an auto-immune response, where the bodys defence system turns on itself. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. We just kept trying. Fortunately, all other passengers were belted up, and the pilot - Robert Schornstheimer - managed to land 13 minutes later, avoiding further loss of life. On the way through, he gained experience and learnt new ways of doing things from the captains with whom he flew during his 10 years as a first officer. Saving the flight fell to Atchison, the co-pilot, who tried to get on the radio to declare an emergency, but couldnt hear the response because of the noises surrounding him. Dubbed the hero of the Hudson after bringing 155 passengers to safety in the powerless aircraft on 15 January 2009, Sullenberger became a national hero in the US. It worked, but meant the aircraft looked certain to miss the runway. Hamble was strong on airmanship and those early lessons stuck with Moody throughout his career. 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. as well as other partner offers and accept our. US Airways Captain Chesley B Sully Sullenberger. We did things that were outside the book. 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. 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. That changed 5 years later when he visited BOAC flying boat captains with his father and heard the stories about their lives. The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. So aircraft radar won't pick it up because the wavelength of the aircraft radar is too long. The events around one British Airways flight in 1982 reveal the potential dangers of this sort of dust. He then called out how high they should be at each DME step along the final approach to the runway, creating a virtual glide slope for them to follow. From November, 1981, to September, 1986, he coordinated all the FBIs Labor Racketeering investigations. We are all doing our damnedest to get them going again. We did it through a very good bit of crew cooperation. "[10], British Airways continued to operate the Flight 9 route from London Heathrow to Sydney; in March 2012 the route was curtailed to Bangkok. You can say its in my blood. A British Airlines flight 30 years ago flew through a cloud of volcanic ash off the coast of Indonesia. "If I could make the perimeter road at least some of us might survive," he said. It wasnt until sometime after landing that the crew discovered volcanic ash was the cause of the engine failures. The captain of this Qantas flight - Richard Champion de Crespigny- was also given a Polaris Award. 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