The tale of a calm pilot during a flight emergency | QI - BBC

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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 Месяц назад

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

@billkingston4402 Месяц назад

Capt Calm

@pictsiemacfeegle3207 Месяц назад

😢🖤🕯️

@paulsengupta971 Месяц назад

RIP Eric.

@carolmccormack2381 Месяц назад

RIP

@maxshootsfilm306 Месяц назад

damn, that realy put a dampener on the eavning! but I raise a pint to him!

@vikingraider1961 Месяц назад

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

@SekritJay Месяц назад

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

@Demun1649 Месяц назад

Did you cry?

@carolynallisee2463 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

Well done… but you missed a. ‘e’ 😂

@carolynallisee2463 Месяц назад

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

@alfnoakes392 Месяц назад

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

@liamwalsh4008 Месяц назад

You misspelt Eyjafjallajökull.

@drw23 Месяц назад

And it was 2010

@PedroConejo1939 Месяц назад

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"._

@mauricestevenson5740 Месяц назад

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...

@grahamstubbs4962 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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 28 дней назад

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

@CymonTempler Месяц назад

1:14 “Falling with style”

@randomxnp Месяц назад

That cabin announcement is a legend in the aviation business.

@garygibson4845 Месяц назад

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

@alfnoakes392 Месяц назад

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

@royster3345 Месяц назад

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

@alfnoakes392 Месяц назад

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

@hairyairey Месяц назад

@@alfnoakes392glides better than the Space Shuttle though!

@Demun1649 Месяц назад

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

@dougaltolan3017 28 дней назад

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

@sandralow984 Месяц назад

He is the epitome of “The Man”

@JolynBowler Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@thomasdelbert Месяц назад

I came here expecting to hear about the gimli glider

@williamjones7163 Месяц назад

He was so British.

@paulcollyer801 Месяц назад

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.

@theylied1776 Месяц назад

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

@andygilbert1877 Месяц назад

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

@vaclav_fejt Месяц назад

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

@samthompson2980 Месяц назад

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

@andrewcharles459 Месяц назад

Legendary.

@robabob1001 Месяц назад

Have to sound laconic and laid back 😂❤

@lhpl Месяц назад

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

@robabob1001 Месяц назад

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

@sumondutta1101 Месяц назад

Nothing like his brother Mad Eye Moody.

@TigerP1 Месяц назад

What a legend.

@pjotrtje0NL Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@johntanner3659 Месяц назад

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

@PhD63 Месяц назад

@@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.

@jamiedeering3400 Месяц назад

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

@wisteela Месяц назад

That's one chilled out cool dude

@seeingthepattern Месяц назад

Splendid chap.

@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars Месяц назад

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 😂😂😂

@Demun1649 Месяц назад

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

@madmeister407 Месяц назад

Hero.

@LeifurHakonarson Месяц назад

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?"

@BedsitBob Месяц назад

Check out the story of the Gimli Glider.

@sydnorth5868 Месяц назад

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

@Skiddins 4 дня назад

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.

@markuk8253 Месяц назад

There are times on RU-vid when one "Like" is not enough.

@AdrianColley Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@graceygrumble Месяц назад

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

@seeingthepattern Месяц назад

@@graceygrumble ☺

@LuigiTRUAndBRUFan2024 Месяц назад

Thanks For Aceppting muge's New Number 234 :)

@creynolds094 Месяц назад

Nanny's flight ✈

@billkingston4402 Месяц назад

Fly Ryan Air, no wings

@pineapplesandjellies Месяц назад

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

@hairyairey Месяц назад

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.

@JocelioHenriqueDosSantos Месяц назад

Brasil in the house😮❤!!!!

@Wimpoman Месяц назад

Sully who?

@just-tess Месяц назад

"glid" Sandi??

@footshotstube Месяц назад

Typical bri

@xISparkzy Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@quiggles Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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.

@michaelbruce5415 Месяц назад

British stiff upper lip at its very best.

@stanleybuchan4610 Месяц назад

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.

@markwarne5049 28 дней назад

Get right with God now commit to Jesus ❤

@justinmanser7525 Месяц назад

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.