We have a small problem. Born in Savannah, Ga and growing up in Hinesville, I was always close We really worked well as a team but that gets the least amount of attention.. We have a small problem. 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. We got two or three thousand feet of clear air. WebCaptain Eric Moody was later praised for a cabin announcement that was described as "a masterpiece of understatement." But it developed into something more than we'd ever seen before.". Many passengers, fearing for their lives, wrote notes to relatives. However, it soon began to grow thicker and had an ominous odour of sulphur. The BBC is not responsible or liable for any diagnosis made by a user based on the content of this site. Ahoy there! MOODY: Well, it was sheer bloody-mindedness and persistence. Its about this time Moody makes one of aviations most understated and famous passenger announcements: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. "The whole night sky lit up. Up in the cockpit, Moody and his team were working overtime. As the ash entered the engines, it melted in the combustion chambers and adhered to the inside of the power-plant. 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. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. From November, 1981, to September, 1986, he coordinated all the FBIs Labor Racketeering investigations. Lancaster survived, suffering a few fractures and frostbite. Aviation safety advances helped stave off BA plane fire disaster, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. And I found that difficult because the internal telephone system wasn't working. 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. This is your captain speaking. Its just one of those things that you gain or you learn from other people and experience.. 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 captain considered getting the co-pilot to take control but concluded that, given the time available and the challenging conditions, his best course of action was to move his right hand from the power levers on to the yoke to regain control. All four engines have stopped. However, Jakarta Area Control misunderstood the message, interpreting the call as meaning that only engine number four had shut down. You can say its in my blood. 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. 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. "We glided from 37,000ft to 12,000ft before we got [the engines] going again," recalls Capt Moody. The events around one British Airways flight in 1982 reveal the potential dangers of this sort of dust. All four engines have stopped. The overnight cases like Marie Antoinettes are harder to explain. 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. All four engines have stopped. Moody hadnt a clue why. 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) Copyright 2010 NPR. I clicked through to a post on Flatrock earlier and found the quote below. In trouble. 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 plane returned to Detroit, and - despite being forced to land dangerously fast - McCormick touched down safely. The puzzle of whether your hair can turn grey sounds like a simple one for medical science to solve, but its not. MOODY: Yeah, they were. 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. By that time, the jet had been gliding for 13 minutes without engines with the crew working hard to restart them. The loss of power caused the plane's speed to drop alarmingly. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. 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. "We were about to stall and fall out of the sky," said Captain Peter Burkill in an interview two years later. Is there a physiological process through which extreme stress can cause hair to change colour this fast? "Not a day goes by without it crossing my mind," he told the BBC last year. In this photo taken from the view of a plane window, smoke billows out from a plane that caught fire at McCarran international airport. The airliner, flown by Captain Eric Moody, lost thrust from all four engines at 37,000ft. 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. By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider Will do best for boys. 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 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. Moody's announcement was actually more than that. But 10 years ago it had a very close call. We are all doing our damnedest to get them going again. Captain John Hackettwas praised in 1998 for averting disaster after his Emerald Airways jet, with the Leeds United football team on board, experienced an engine fire during take-off. All four engines have stopped. Officers selected for but not promoted to the next higher grade must specifically decline promotion in their retirement in lieu of orders (RILO) request. The 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. 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. All four engines have stopped. We had a really good team there when it came to experience and airmanship, he says of BA9. 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. It was scrapped at Bournemouth Airport, Dorset, England, in 2009. 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. But as they flew over Java, an engine failed. [9] G-BDXH's engineless flight entered the Guinness Book of Records as the longest glide in a non-purpose-built aircraft. And I hand flew the airplane down. The cloud sandblasted the windscreen and landing light covers and clogged the engines. In his calmest pilots voice Moody made an announcement: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, This is your captain speaking. So aircraft radar won't pick it up because the wavelength of the aircraft radar is too long. 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. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops delivered daily to your inbox. New York, New York, United States. Our first thoughts were it was a bomb.". 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. All four engines have stopped. We must've come out of the ash cloud. 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. We did it through a very good bit of crew cooperation. Following the incident, the crew and passengers formed the Galunggung Gliding Club as a means to keep in contact. His hair took a year to turn completely white. 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. https://www.seafarerinnandsuites.com/. The crew members of the incident segment had boarded the aircraft in Kuala Lumpur, while many of the passengers had been aboard since the flight began in London.[2]. 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. One of the passengers, Betty Tootell, wrote a book about the incident, All Four Engines Have Failed. 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. 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. One study showed that hair naturally greys through the same chemical used to bleach hair from bottles. Officers selected for but not promoted to the next higher grade must specifically decline promotion in their retirement in lieu of orders (RILO) request. In his calmest pilots voice Moody made an announcement: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, This is your captain speaking. Although there were guidelines for the water landing procedure, no one had ever tried it in a Boeing 747, nor has anyone since. 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. 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. 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. He says pilots of his era expected things to go wrong and thought ahead about what they would do when that happened. Less than a minute later, at 13:43 UTC (20:43 Jakarta time), engine two surged and flamed out. With nerves of steel, the captain, Eric Moody, miraculously landed the plane. 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. 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. The incident featured in an episode of the Mayday documentary TV series Air Crash Investigation titled "Falling From the Sky". It was, says Moody, a classic case of airmanship and cooperation between the flight crew. There was a scientist who afterwards, called Fred Prata - P-R-A-T-A - and he developed a volcanic ash detector. 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 sky was clear and the crew were happy because they had some extra Malaysian satay that night. There were 152 people on board and we were all going to die.". [3], At approximately 13:42 UTC (20:42 Jakarta time), engine number four began surging and soon flamed out. The plane headed back to Jakarta where it landed safely, though even then one of the engines had failed again. As we age, the cells in hair follicles stop producing these pigments and the resulting hairs are colourless. 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. We were down at 12,000 feet then. 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. 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 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. 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. So the story had a happy ending. British Airways Flight 9from Heathrow to Auckland was passing over Jakarta when it ran into volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four of the 747's engines. WebCaptain Moody served with British Airways for 32 years, retiring in 1996 with over 17,000 flight hours. Say goodbye to worktime boredom. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has adopted only six of the 35 safety recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in its final report on Flight 1549. The plane landed in Jakarta. Check out her hotel! Im married to the lovely Claire Moody who is the General Manger of the Seafarer Inn and Suites on Jekyll. here's Wikipedia's description of the incident: Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, The crew's intense focus on the problem (without false assurances that they could fix it), Concern for the well-being of the passengers (without being patronizing). But quite honestly, a pilot flies his feet, and wherever he goes the rest of the airplane follows. 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. 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. Luckily, Captain Bob Pearson was an experienced glider pilot, guiding the 767 to RCAF Station Gimli. He attended a school near Winchester that had an RAF cadet force and, importantly, learnt to fly a glider at 16. The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. This is your captain speaking. They outlined a mechanism through which a hallmark of chronic stress causes DNA damage in mice that could lead to conditions like greying hair. You have entered an incorrect email address! A build-up of ice crystals had caused a restriction in the flow of fuel. 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. WebCaptain Eric Moody was later praised for a cabin announcement that was described as "a masterpiece of understatement." After landing, the flight crew found it impossible to taxi, due to glare from apron floodlights which made the already sandblasted windscreen opaque. 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. From November, 1981, to September, 1986, he coordinated all the FBIs Labor Racketeering investigations. They had no idea what was causing the flame-outs. It was, in Moody's words, "a bit like negotiating one's way up abadger's arse.". -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. And we got to 13,000 feet and one engine started. same chemical used to bleach hair from bottles. Born in Savannah, Ga and growing up in Hinesville, I was always close to saltwater. 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. "[10], British Airways continued to operate the Flight 9 route from London Heathrow to Sydney; in March 2012 the route was curtailed to Bangkok. 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. However, due to the sound of rushing air, he could not hear air traffic control. 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. On the flight deck, however, Greaves's mask was broken; the delivery tube had detached from the rest of the mask. Passengers reportedly scribbled notes to loved ones (one, by Charles Capewell, read: "Ma. The City of Edinburgh had been cruising at 37,000 feet over the ocean on a June night w 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. The aircraft was diverted to Jakarta in the hope that enough engines could be restarted to allow it to land there. What do you do? -3 hrs ago, What volcanic ash does to planes-13 hrs ago, Why is volcanic ash a threat to planes? The flight deck door was blown off, blocking the throttle control and causing the plane to accelerate towards the ground. WebSingle Family Office. 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. This raised the possibility BA9 might have to attempt an ocean ditching if the engines could not be restarted by 12,000 feet. Finding a new job with an accident on his record, however, proved difficult, and he rejoined the airline in 2010. We have a small problem. He just wanted to get the plane on the ground. There was no book for us, he says from his home in England. 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 are doing our damnedest to get them going again. In trouble. We have a small problem. Once the flight cleared the ash cloud, the crew was able to restart each engine and then make a safe landing at Anchorage.[12]. 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 Looking out the side windows of the cockpit, the crew noticed the front of the engines were glowing as if lit inside. The Miracle on the Hudson was hailed as the most successful ditching in aviation history by the NTSB. 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. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. 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. 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). They had no idea what was causing the flame-outs. Copyright Civil Aviation Safety Authority Australia, Captain Moodys wisdom: the aeroplane might break any minute. 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. The captain, Eric Moody, tried to reassure passengers with the following statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. One by one, all four of its engines failed. Find out more, The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, Heroic pilots earn praise - and sometimes even bundles of cash, Chesley Sullenberger III: great name, great pilot, Senior First Officer John Coward and Captain Peter Burkhill, Two China Eastern Airlines planes were involved in the near-miss, The five best spa hotels in the New Forest, Why Australia is the greatest country for wildlife lovers, How cyclists are taking over Europe's cities and why it's a good thing. They had no idea what was causing the flame-outs. "That's not unusual in high wispy cloud. Though incredibly rare, there have been a few other instances where commercial airliners have been forced to make a landing on water. It is thought to be caused by an auto-immune response, where the bodys defence system turns on itself. Born in Savannah, Ga and growing up in Hinesville, I was always close The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Because volcanic ash up where we were is like talcum powder; it's that fine. 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 City of Edinburgh had been cruising at 37,000 feet over the ocean on a June night w That pleased me more than anything. 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. 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 During the struggle, the plane was forced into a roll just before impact with the water, causing the craft to break into three pieces. It was a masterpiece, period. Moody throttled back; however, engine number two surged again and was shut down. Plane going down. We have a small problem. It was scrapped at Bournemouth Airport, Dorset, England, in 2009. There was plenty of time to think and there were three of us, Moody says. Reports suggested there were a total of 413 passengers and 26 crew on board the two planes. The reason for the failure was not immediately apparent to the crew or ground control. 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. Within a year the rest of his hair had done the same. The experience of Capt Moody, almost 30 years ago, shows the potential danger clouds of volcanic ash present to modern jet aircraft. We have a small problem. an industry where women are still an extreme minority, part of the planes windshield came loose. All four engines have stopped. And they were working equally as hard as me. Pa XXX" on the cover of his ticket wallet.[2]. 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. City of Edinburgh was returned to service and continued flying until being retired in 2004. 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. But that was the least of my worries, I have to say. Post-flight investigation revealed that City of Edinburgh's problems had been caused by flying through a cloud of volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Galunggung. 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 second engine failed 30 seconds later and the other two shortly afterwards. I don't - I'm not that demonstrative, no. This episode was repeated a number of times when the Eyjafjallajkull volcano caused a large-scale shutdown of European airspace. A dry sense of perspective that probably did more to relax the passengers than thousands of words of explanation ever could have. 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. But eventually, when the passenger oxygen masks dropped as the plane steepened its descent, the news had to be announced. Hamble was strong on airmanship and those early lessons stuck with Moody throughout his career. This is precisely what happened to one Flybe captain in 2014. In 1982, a British Airways 747 flew into a cloud of volcanic ash near Indonesia. 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