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>Volcano erupts in Indonesia
>Locals don't notice because they have shit weather radar
>747 flies through the dust cloud
>All 4 engines get filled with volcanic ash and burn out
>"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
>Spend 12 minutes gliding, dropping 23,500 feet in the process
>The pilots are preparing to be the first 747 ever to attempt a water landing
>Finally one of the engines restarts
>But ILS is offline
>Windscreen is completely opaque due to ash, no way to clean it
>Manage to land running entirely on instruments
>Fatalities: 0
>Injuries: 0
Survivors: 263

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 193 points 8 months ago

One correction I feel is needed, the windscreen wasn't dirty from ash, it had effectively been sand blasted opaque, with only a small corner of the screen remaining clear

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 53 points 8 months ago

To go further, pretty certain that jets have wipers. If it was just ash, they could have cleaned it to get some visibility.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 180 points 8 months ago

The level of stakes at some jobs are crazy.

Another example: if the powerpoint slides my team prepares for a board meeting are not pretty enough, my director might be sad.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 115 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I literally cannot tell the difference.

Source: am manager, and sometimes my underlings don't toil hard enough in the PowerPoint mines.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

Literally world ending.

[-] tool@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I literally cannot tell the difference.

Source: am manager, and sometimes my underlings don't toil hard enough in the PowerPoint mines.

You should mercilessly berate them until morale improves, that's MBA 101.

You're gonna be back in the PowerPoint mines if you don't fix your soft-hearted attitude.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 139 points 8 months ago

You missed the chaddiest part.

Got two of four engines running. Climbs to set up for landing, one engine starts surging and flaming.

After losing all engines, nearly ditching at sea with no engines, the elation of getting something back and not knowing what will happen with the other one, with 250 lives on the line they shut it down because they know they should.

Good thing a 747 can carry balls of that size on one engine

[-] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 97 points 8 months ago
[-] khannie@lemmy.world 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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!

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

Hey, it is easy to spell how Icelanders pronounce it in my native language:

Eyyafyatlayakötül

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Islandmountainglacier. Got it. Why didn't they say that in the first place?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 25 points 8 months ago

On an island full of mountain glaciers, it does make you wonder how they came up with that name.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

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.

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[-] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

Catch a throatful from the fire vocal With ash and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

When talking about things in Iceland, the u pronounceable part can be safely assumed. You only need to clarify if it can be pronounced.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 62 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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!

[-] accideath@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] CosmicRaptor@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

That show is now called Air Crash Investigation and it still airs! Its my favourite, I highly recommend catching up the recent seasons

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

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

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] gondwana@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago

Checklists are great and they work.

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago

The calmness and professionalism in the face over terrible odds and potential catastrophe just scream "british"

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 8 months ago

Could have been a very different outcome if not for the quick thinking of the cabin crew brewing up more tea for the pilots.

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[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 35 points 8 months ago

That has to be the best "captain speaking" moment in history.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Uhhh ladies and gentlemen... drinks are free.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

I'd be so pissed if I was on that plane

[-] otacon239@feddit.de 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Your alternative would be being dead. I’d say they did pretty darn well. Any landing you can walk away from was a good landing after all.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

I think you missed the point of my joke.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

Now to be fair, I catch 99% of internet sarcasm and I thought you were sincere. There is a fair amount to be upset about despite surviving.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

I always assume it's not a joke if it's not funny. Later lets me be an ahole when they defend themselves :)

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

That's why you should always wear brown chinos while traveling.

[-] Contingencyfork@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Doesn't work. Been there. Still shows.

[-] don@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago

0% chaddery. 100% sorcery. The chad knoweth not the mind of the mystic.

[-] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 20 points 8 months ago

I watched the Mentour Pilot video on this landing and it's crazy!

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

The AI generated "Chad" in all these memes is the most homoerotic thing I've seen since Top Gun.

[-] kiagam@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago

it is not ai generated, that photo is from 2014. it is highly edited by the original photographer

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[-] Heavybell@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Mentour Pilot did a good video on this, including an interview with the pilot. https://youtu.be/YYwN1R8hVsI

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[-] Wooki@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Missed the best part, they got a once in a lifetime lightening show located entirely in their kitchen I mean 747

[-] Nightweb@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Speedbird 9

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