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mahatmakanejeeves

(65,244 posts) Wed Jun 25, 2025, 05:54 PM 18 hrs ago

On June 24, 1982, all four engines of British Airways Flight 009 failed when it flew into a cloud of volcanic ash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_24

• 1982 – "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 009 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.

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On June 24, 1982, all four engines of British Airways Flight 009 failed when it flew into a cloud of volcanic ash. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves 18 hrs ago OP

What a great, great story! MyOwnPeace 17 hrs ago #1

That's so powerful that I used it in a post. usonian 16 hrs ago #2

MyOwnPeace

(17,327 posts)

1. What a great, great story!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 06:34 PM

17 hrs ago

That crew should have been honored in a movie like "Sully!"

Thanks for the citing - makes you wonder how many other stories we're not hearing because of the daily chaos IQ45/47 keeps filling the headlines with......

usonian

(18,583 posts)

2. That's so powerful that I used it in a post.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 07:35 PM

16 hrs ago

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19643403

I so hate that overused and outright wrong "definition of insanity".

Specifically: "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result"

By a very smart person (not myself)

One remarkable example is British Airways Flight 9 from London to New Zealand, which lost power in all four engines as a result of flying through a volcanic ash cloud from an eruption of Mount Galunggung. It’s an incredible story of the pilots staying calm and strategizing through the various survival options. For them, in the end, sticking to the engine restart process, failing time and time again while expecting and hoping for a different result, actually worked. The engines eventually restarted and they were able to land safely.

I met Sully. What a great guy. There's some numerology in the Flight on Hudson that would totally dox me. DM only.

And I stand by my post on the wrong definition of insanity. We're not insane to fight RW nazis over and over and expect a better result. To the cornfield with them!

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