The plane was badly damaged, and stopped yard from the M11 motorway, but everyone on board survived and Hackett was praised for defying protocol. All four engines have stopped. British Airways flight 5290 had taken off from London on its way to Spain on 10 June 1990 when part of the planes windshield came loose and sucked Captain Tim Lancaster out of the plane. Moody displaying the cool-headed nature required of a pilot made the following announcement to his passengers: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. 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. 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 best explanation for it is not that the hair changes colour, but that the pigmented hairs fall out. I think airmanship is at the bottom of it all. This is precisely what happened to one Flybe captain in 2014. MOODY: Yeah, they were. The airliner, flown by Captain Eric Moody, lost thrust from all four engines at 37,000ft. It was scrapped at Bournemouth Airport, Dorset, England, in 2009. In his calmest pilots voice Moody made an announcement: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, This is your captain speaking. On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by the City of Edinburgh, a 747-236B. The aircraft was taken out of service in February 2004; in 2009, the then 30-year-old aircraft was scrapped. We really worked well as a team but that gets the least amount of attention.. The loss of power caused the plane's speed to drop alarmingly. Can hair really turn white overnight? In trouble. After being ferried back to London, engine number four was replaced and major work was undertaken to return the aircraft to service. His hair took a year to turn completely white. 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. Sign up for notifications from Insider! Moody hadnt a clue why. Youll love it! All four engines have stopped. SIMON: This was nearly three decades ago. They had no idea what was causing the flame-outs. [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. Furthermore, the dust sandblasted the windscreen, making it almost impossible to see. The airliner, flown by Captain Eric Moody, lost thrust from all four engines at 37,000ft. Its a common tale, even said to have happened to Marie Antoinette. Here are five other pilots who managed remarkable emergency landings. "Engine failure number four engine failure number two," he said. 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. "It was, yeah, a little bit frightening.". After being assessed for post-traumatic stress disorder, Burkill returned to the cockpit five months later. The captain of this Qantas flight - Richard Champion de Crespigny- was also given a Polaris Award. After its closing I did what most young people do at a tourist destination and started waiting tables and bartending. As the aircraft approached its target altitude, the St Elmo's fire effect on the windscreen returned. 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. And they were working equally as hard as me. 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. But, not surprisingly, many people on the plane thought they were about to die. Gliding as low as 12,000 feet, they turned back towards Indonesia. We love you. When he opened the door to the cockpit he saw the windscreen ablaze with a St Elmo's fire - a discharge of static electricity. 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 have a small problem. Effective date of retirement is no later than August 1, 2022. 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. 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. Shortly after that, engines one and two successfully restarted as well. The overnight cases like Marie Antoinettes are harder to explain. Moody says a strong grounding in airmanship skills he and the crew had gained over the years through experience and by watching others helped them survive the ordeal. 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. So aircraft radar won't pick it up because the wavelength of the aircraft radar is too long. He attended a school near Winchester that had an RAF cadet force and, importantly, learnt to fly a glider at 16. That pleased me more than anything. They had no idea what was causing the flame-outs. 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. 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. MOODY: No. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. WebCaptain Moody served with British Airways for 32 years, retiring in 1996 with over 17,000 flight hours. They'd stopped back up at 37,000 feet. Up in the cockpit, Moody and his team were working overtime. There's no airborne ash detector that's marketed. The minimum time in grade to be considered eligible for retirement is two years. 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 only way to go faster, and avoiding stalling, was to take a steeper approach. "That's not unusual in high wispy cloud. Henkey, who has been a pilot for 42 years, issued a mayday call and brought the plane to a stop. Yet there is something about the idea of hair changing colour through shock that is fascinating. The problem had not been spotted earlier because of an electronic fault on the aircrafts instrument panel, and the plane lost all power. 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. 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. 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. Looking out the side windows of the cockpit, the crew noticed the front of the engines were glowing as if lit inside. 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. These are good stories, but are they scientifically possible? Then he ordered the evacuation of the 157 passengers and 13 crew members. 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. We must've come out of the ash cloud. Passengers reportedly scribbled notes to loved ones (one, by Charles Capewell, read: "Ma. "The commander's decision to land the aircraft immediately on the runway remaining was sensible in the circumstances," anAir Accidents Investigation Branch report concluded. Born in Savannah, Ga and growing up in Hinesville, I was always close 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. 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. We have a small problem. But as they flew over Java, an engine failed. Copyright 2010 NPR. In his calmest pilots voice Moody made an announcement: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, This is your captain speaking. Oxygen bags are deployed. SIMON: So your plane's going down. Out of the 175 people on board, 125 died in the accident. There were 152 people on board and we were all going to die.". And we had to wait another minute and 20 seconds; another one started up very slowly, as they'd run down. Gliding as low as 12,000 feet, they turned back towards Indonesia. So a severe shock could trigger hair loss, but with only the coloured hairs falling out, leaving someone who already has some grey with a whole head of white hair. We were down at 12,000 feet then. 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). 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. In some cases the white hairs are unaffected by the condition. As the flight progressed, smoke began to accumulate in the passenger cabin of the aircraft; it was first assumed to be cigarette smoke. 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. 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. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. It wasnt until sometime after landing that the crew discovered volcanic ash was the cause of the engine failures. 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. Officers selected for but not promoted to the next higher grade must specifically decline promotion in their retirement in lieu of orders (RILO) request. 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 City of Edinburgh had been cruising at 37,000 feet over the ocean on a June night w Pa XXX" on the cover of his ticket wallet.[2]. The minimum time in grade to be considered eligible for retirement is two years. Stay up to date with what you want to know. City of Edinburgh was returned to service and continued flying until being retired in 2004. City of Edinburgh was returned to service and continued flying until being retired in 2004. All four engines have stopped. The crew received various awards, including the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air and medals from the British Air Line Pilots Association. 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. All four engines have stopped. Moody hadnt a clue why. Moody displaying the cool-headed nature required of a pilot made the following announcement to his passengers: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 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. 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. Im married to the lovely Claire Moody who is the General Manger of the Seafarer Inn and Suites on Jekyll. As we age, the cells in hair follicles stop producing these pigments and the resulting hairs are colourless. Check out her hotel! From November, 1981, to September, 1986, he coordinated all the FBIs Labor Racketeering investigations. You can hear more Medical Myths on Health Check on the BBC World Service. 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 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. 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 So the story had a happy ending. The medical name for the sudden whitening of the hair is canities subita. And the airplane actually landed itself. 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. McCormick managed to perform an emergency landing in Detroit with no casualties or major injuries. 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. Little has changed since our flight. 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. Then theres a more recent case study of a 54-year-old woman in Switzerland who had a small patch of hair loss. 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. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. I trust you are not in too much distress.. Within a year the rest of his hair had done the same. 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. ", The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. 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. During the struggle, the plane was forced into a roll just before impact with the water, causing the craft to break into three pieces. 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. 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. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. The great rewilding debate should we be returning eagles and wolves to our national parks? And I hand flew the airplane down. They had no idea what was causing the flame-outs. However, it soon began to grow thicker and had an ominous odour of sulphur. In trouble. 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. The BBC is not responsible or liable for any diagnosis made by a user based on the content of this site. We owe it to all who fly to act on what we have learned and not just let important recommendations gather dust on a shelf., He added: I am still very glad that we were able to save every life in such a sudden and intense crisis for which we had never been specifically trained.. 56,514 people are reading stories on the site right now. 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. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops delivered daily to your inbox. The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. 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. WebCaptain Eric Moody was later praised for a cabin announcement that was described as "a masterpiece of understatement." And thats something thats not changed at all. Plane going down. 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. 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). From November, 1981, to September, 1986, he coordinated all the FBIs Labor Racketeering investigations. In 1996, a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed into the ocean near the Comoros Islands after running out of fuel. Aviation safety advances helped stave off BA plane fire disaster, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. All four engines have stopped. All rights reserved. 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. 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. I trust you are not in too much distress.". Officers selected for but not promoted to the next higher grade must specifically decline promotion in their retirement in lieu of orders (RILO) request. After falling more than 25,000 feet and preparing to ditch in the Indian Ocean, the plane's crew eventually got the engines restarted. "We were about to stall and fall out of the sky," said Captain Peter Burkill in an interview two years later. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 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