And not a single drop of tea was spilled that day
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Missed the best part, they got a once in a lifetime lightening show located entirely in their kitchen I mean 747
Mentour Pilot did a good video on this, including an interview with the pilot. https://youtu.be/YYwN1R8hVsI
That only had 262 people aboard the flight though.
Read "The Checklist Manifesto" and you understand why pilots follow their protocols. Outcomes like this are because they did everything exactly according to the checklist.
Checklists and training/preparation.
A lot of times these super professional responses are from having practiced emergency procedures until the checklist may as well be tattooed on the back of their eyes.
Seriously fantastic book and it's a quick read. Definitely recommended.
It's written by a surgeon who was involved in helping promote the use of checklists in healthcare. A lot of the book is about looking at their use in other places like aviation and construction and realizing why they work and how they can help in other places. The book spends a lot of time on the idea that some fields have become so complex with so many pieces that it's impossible for any one person to be able to track it all in their head on the fly and the effect that has in "can't afford failure" industries.
A book about checklists sounds like it'd be dreadfully dry and boring but the author is a solid writer and the book is full of a ton of really interesting vignettes -- I find people tend to fly through it. I first read it probably 10 years ago and it's one of those books that has really stuck with me since.
Checklists are great and they work.
The calmness and professionalism in the face over terrible odds and potential catastrophe just scream "british"
Could have been a very different outcome if not for the quick thinking of the cabin crew brewing up more tea for the pilots.
Sometimes you just need a cuppa.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_009 Awesome story here
If I had a nickel for every time a 747 lost engines going through volcanic ash and recovered with no fatalities, I would have two nickels.
which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Moody made an announcement to the passengers that has been described as "a masterpiece of understatement"
I didn't believe that was an actual quote but here we are.
On the descent without visibility....
Moody described it as "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse."
Oh my word. HAHAHA!
I mean, it begs the question as to how he knows what the inside of a badger's arse looks like lol
When I was a kid, there was a TV show on the Discovery Channel called "Mayday" where they would reenact famous plane accidents. The episode about this particular incident (Falling from the sky) was my absolute favorite.
One thing anon left out is that they didn't actually realize what was going on at the time, and they witnessed something called "Saint Elmo's Fire" which looks a bit like the way they show stars whizzing past the Enterprise in Star Trek when they warp. So these pilots were not only flying blind and lame, but the whole time were seeing something that looked like they had just been teleported to another dimension out their window.
Edit: It turns out the full episode is on YouTube. Enjoy!
That show is now called Air Crash Investigation and it still airs! Its my favourite, I highly recommend catching up the recent seasons
show is now called Air Crash Investigation
According to the wikipedia I linked, the name varies based on where the show is aired. In Canada and the US, it's still called Mayday
I can recommend the YouTube channel Mentour Pilot who breaks down flight accidents and incidents, how they happened, what went wrong and why and what lessons were learned from them.
And that's how pilots learned to never fly around an erupting volcano and several years back all air traffic in Europe was halted when a volcano with an unpronounceable name in Iceland had a bad moment.
When talking about things in Iceland, the u pronounceable part can be safely assumed. You only need to clarify if it can be pronounced.
Catch a throatful from the fire vocal With ash and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull
That was shortly after their economy crashed. I remember people saying that the last wish of Iceland's economy was to have its ashes spread across Europe.
Hey, it is easy to spell how Icelanders pronounce it in my native language:
Or a cognate, Eyfallicle; ey as in island, fall as in a valley(?), icle from icicle.
Mér líkar þetta málið!
Islandmountainglacier. Got it. Why didn't they say that in the first place?
On an island full of mountain glaciers, it does make you wonder how they came up with that name.
The rest of them have names like "NoNotThatIslandMountainGlacierTheOtherOne"
The others have names like "rock flake", "old hag", "cloak", "broad shoulders", "Erik's "glacier" and "baldric's bump" from what I can quickly find. It seems they gave up with the Islandmountainglacier.
Baldric's got a bump that looks just like a turnip
MorningLightMountain
Good thing they're pretty isolated over there then