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    In this week's episode of QI, filmed in 2023, we were lucky enough to have the truly heroic Captain Eric Moody in the studio. Sadly, Eric passed away last month. Our thoughts are with Eric's friends and family.
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  • @Ulleskelf
    @Ulleskelf 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +237

    Capt Moody sadly died in March 2024. Thank you for your service sir.

  • @vikingraider1961
    @vikingraider1961 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    The passengers and crew of this flight got together and formed the "Galunggung Gliding Club" to keep in contact.

  • @SekritJay
    @SekritJay 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    I was just looking up the incident report on Wikipedia, Cpt Moody passed away in March of this year. Rest in peace

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did you cry?

  • @carolynallisee2463
    @carolynallisee2463 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    This is the story that comes up whenever flight/ air travel and volcanoes come up together. I think this was the first time anyone realised just how destructive volcanic ash could be to jet engines, and was the reason behind the disruption of European air traffic when Eyejafjallajokull volcano erupted back in 2011.

    • @MeppyMan
      @MeppyMan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Well done… but you missed a. ‘e’ 😂

    • @carolynallisee2463
      @carolynallisee2463 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@MeppyMan Well, I try my best! (modest blush)

    • @alfnoakes392
      @alfnoakes392 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I did not know they had volcanoes in Wales...

    • @liamwalsh4008
      @liamwalsh4008 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You misspelt Eyjafjallajökull.

    • @drw23
      @drw23 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And it was 2010

  • @mauricestevenson5740
    @mauricestevenson5740 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I loved this story when it first came out. We first heard the basic details and I was thinking "Whaaa...?", trying to imagine how I would have reacted. I settled on "screaming and sobbing".
    Then the details started to emerge and I learnt that the crew got out the manuals and started going through the checklists until they got to "start engine number 1" followed by a pause - then "back to step one".
    A special breed...

  • @PedroConejo1939
    @PedroConejo1939 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    One of the passengers was a journo and she wrote a book about it soon after the event. A remarkable read, but just cannot remember what it's called.
    Wikipedia to the rescue: "One of the passengers, Betty Tootell, wrote a book about the accident, _All Four Engines Have Failed"._

  • @CymonTempler
    @CymonTempler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    1:14 “Falling with style”

  • @garygibson4845
    @garygibson4845 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    My Captain, my Captain! What a great sense of calm. A trait so many of us could benefit from. ✌️✅

  • @grahamstubbs4962
    @grahamstubbs4962 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    All engines out, you're still trying to turn this free-fall brick back into an aeroplane. No vision through what is now a bathroom window. And still the presence of mind not to panic the passengers.
    That is a fully-formed pilot.
    God knows how he did that. RIP sir.

    • @stevie-ray2020
      @stevie-ray2020 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Apparently along some edges of the windows there were strips of the windscreen that weren't sand-blasted, but it definitely wasn't an easy task!

    • @dougaltolan3017
      @dougaltolan3017 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Free-fall bricks don't have a glide slope of 15;1, on the other hand, a 747 does.

  • @dontbenosey1
    @dontbenosey1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The full story of the flight is well worth watching.
    Captain Eric Moody and his crew did a phenomenal job getting that aircraft down safely.

  • @randomxnp
    @randomxnp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That cabin announcement is a legend in the aviation business.

  • @JolynBowler
    @JolynBowler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Oh so sad to hear of his recent death. Thank you so much for highlighting this story. I know of the amazing "Landing on the Hudson" but had never heard this heroic story. THANK YOU. RIP CAPTAIN MOODY 🌻

    • @1_5RCBiker
      @1_5RCBiker 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mentour Pilot did a video about this. BA flight 009.

    • @thomasdelbert
      @thomasdelbert 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I came here expecting to hear about the gimli glider

  • @alfnoakes392
    @alfnoakes392 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    The 747 actually 'glides' amongst the best (if not the best) of the large airliners. Amazing piloting.

    • @royster3345
      @royster3345 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think it's more falling while moving a little forward....😂

    • @alfnoakes392
      @alfnoakes392 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@royster3345 Agreed, "gliding" is a relative term 😃

    • @hairyairey
      @hairyairey 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@alfnoakes392glides better than the Space Shuttle though!

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hairyairey But not as good as the A380, which is designed to glide, like ALL AIRBUS craft.

    • @dougaltolan3017
      @dougaltolan3017 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Demun1649Google first hits has glide slope of 747 and a380 both at 15:1.

  • @sandralow984
    @sandralow984 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    He is the epitome of “The Man”

  • @paulcollyer801
    @paulcollyer801 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I’ve read a fairly detailed account of this, and dammit the calm approach and practical approach by the flight crew was what saved the day. Iirc as a result the engine restart procedure on checklists was shortened to what had been successful on that flight!
    Also, I believe that all crew & passengers meet every year. A survivors club as it were.

  • @williamjones7163
    @williamjones7163 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    He was so British.

  • @theylied1776
    @theylied1776 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    This is why American soldiers love British officers because they're always calm and have something very strange to say.

    • @andygilbert1877
      @andygilbert1877 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ex British soldier here…yeah, we noticed the strange bit too! 😂😂😂

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@andygilbert1877My dad, ex-ČSLA dog handler trainer (formally officer, but not a career soldier) said "People have their pecularities. Officers are almost people."

    • @samthompson2980
      @samthompson2980 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's what we Brits do 😂 part of a lifetime of sarcasm - deadpan delivery.

  • @sumondutta1101
    @sumondutta1101 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Nothing like his brother Mad Eye Moody.

  • @robabob1001
    @robabob1001 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Have to sound laconic and laid back 😂❤

    • @lhpl
      @lhpl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      "What else could I do?" A stoic and pragmatic hero would say things like that.

    • @robabob1001
      @robabob1001 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lhpl Yeah haha I didn't need 5 minutes in the toilet just to breathe and think did that actually just happen..

  • @andrewcharles459
    @andrewcharles459 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Legendary.

  • @pjotrtje0NL
    @pjotrtje0NL 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    0:11 Alan, at some point in time (I saw it in the 1980s) this used to be the standard BA colorscheme. Not British Airways, just “British”.

    • @pjotrtje0NL
      @pjotrtje0NL 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ChuckWind-Saw but also on Hawker-Siddeley Tridents 😉

    • @johntanner3659
      @johntanner3659 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They did it as a cost cutting measure in around 1980.

    • @PhD63
      @PhD63 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@johntanner3659Not correct. It was done due to Americans always referring to British Airways just as “British”. I know this because I spent a lot of time in the US during this period and heard Americans on multiple occasions saying it. BA attempting to be a “world airline” at the time thought it would be a good idea to just put British on the side, but it didn’t last very long due to the derision it brought about.

  • @seeingthepattern
    @seeingthepattern 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Splendid chap.

  • @wisteela
    @wisteela 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's one chilled out cool dude

  • @TigerP1
    @TigerP1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a legend.

  • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
    @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a fabulous gentleman ❤ I was so surprised when they said he was in the audience. Saddened to learn of his recent passing but delighted to have learnt of his story..... Particularly the badgers arse bit 😂😂😂

  • @BedsitBob
    @BedsitBob 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Check out the story of the Gimli Glider.

  • @jamiedeering3400
    @jamiedeering3400 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    God bless you Captain Moody( Captain Calm) a true hero

  • @markuk8253
    @markuk8253 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There are times on TH-cam when one "Like" is not enough.

  • @LeifurHakonarson
    @LeifurHakonarson 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The story goes that when he reported to Jakarta "we have lost all four engines" the controller responded "confirm you have lost number four engine?"

  • @Demun1649
    @Demun1649 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    All four engines stopped!!!!! They'll be stuck up there for ages.

  • @WilsonArumaiDhas
    @WilsonArumaiDhas หลายเดือนก่อน

    RIP Captain Moody

  • @madmeister407
    @madmeister407 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hero.

  • @Skiddins
    @Skiddins 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    RIP Eric Moody. The episode was filmed on Mon 20th Feb 2023, I was in the audience, and was the first recorded for the 'U' series. No idea why it went out as episode 11.

  • @sydnorth5868
    @sydnorth5868 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And the Galunggung Gliding Club have held regular meetings ever since!

  • @2xEloden2024AFN
    @2xEloden2024AFN 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks For Aceppting muge's New Number 234 :)

  • @AdrianColley
    @AdrianColley 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Alan Davies should have lost points for saying "falling". That's the kind of misinformation which makes people afraid of flying. A 747 with all-engine failure has a glide ratio of 15:1, which means it can fly under control for over 100 miles before it loses 37,000 feet of altitude.

    • @seeingthepattern
      @seeingthepattern 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was not a public information announcement, it was,a joke. Do get a grip.

    • @graceygrumble
      @graceygrumble 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@seeingthepattern Cheers for that. It made me giggle, audibly. 😄

    • @seeingthepattern
      @seeingthepattern 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@graceygrumble ☺

  • @hairyairey
    @hairyairey 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The press misreport this story so much! Saying things like the passengers being unaware what was happening. When all four engines of a 747 "flame out" you will notice. It will be so much quieter.

  • @creynolds094
    @creynolds094 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nanny's flight ✈

  • @pineapplesandjellies
    @pineapplesandjellies 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So was he successful at not panicking the passengers? How did people in the cabin react?

  • @billkingston4402
    @billkingston4402 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fly Ryan Air, no wings

  • @JocelioHenriqueDosSantos
    @JocelioHenriqueDosSantos 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brasil in the house😮❤!!!!

  • @Wimpoman
    @Wimpoman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sully who?

  • @just-tess
    @just-tess 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "glid" Sandi??

  • @footshotstube
    @footshotstube 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Typical bri

  • @michaelbruce5415
    @michaelbruce5415 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    British stiff upper lip at its very best.

  • @xISparkzy
    @xISparkzy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    wasnt sand it was a rare phenomina knows as st elmo's fire and it was the middle of the night so thats why they couldnt see lol

    • @xISparkzy
      @xISparkzy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      also if they hadnt ignited the engines they wouldnt of been able to make it over a mountain range in the way of the closest airport and wouldve had to ditch it

    • @WillBravoNotEvil
      @WillBravoNotEvil 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wrong in every possible way. That's rare. Fortunately.

    • @quiggles
      @quiggles 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They couldn't see because the windscreen had been sandblasted by the ash from the volcano.… St Elmos fire would have happened, as it does on lots of flights because of the static caused, but in this instance it was literally the ash grinding at all the forward facing surfaces.

    • @StuBobsGhost
      @StuBobsGhost 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wrong! There was St Elmo's Fire, but it was caused by the same volcanic dust that made the engines fail and sandblasted the windshield.

  • @stanleybuchan4610
    @stanleybuchan4610 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's why we have pilot's who require aptitude and skill. Today's "quota" pilots who are given an easy ride will be eventually responsible for many deaths.

  • @justinmanser7525
    @justinmanser7525 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    These 'flyboys' are a different breed, and the aviation industry is unique in that admin don't really argue with the sharp minds of their pilots.....especially at 35,0000 feet.
    Damn straight the BBC should be humbled, but actually they should be disbanded and facing justice for years of allowing pervs and coke heads to work for them, let alone misleading the public about everything.

  • @markwarne5049
    @markwarne5049 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Get right with God now commit to Jesus ❤

  • @95Gabe
    @95Gabe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Her voice. 50/50 with Captain Janeway from Star trek as to which is more annoying.