British Airways Flight 9 Engines Fail In Volcanic Lightning Storm | Mayday | Wonder

paper was light gold in medieval times [Music] oh no tobacco sugar [Music] that everything we thought we knew about the world might turn out to be completely wrong [Music] high above the indian ocean disaster strikes on fire more than 10 kilometers in the air all four engines of a british airways 747 stopped working roger declare emergency may day may day mayday with no engines and little power british airways flight nine falls towards the ocean the crew fight to keep their plane from crashing into the sea what has crippled their massive jet threatening the lives of everyone on board june the 24th 1982 british airways flight 9 cruises through the sky over indonesia in a few hours the plane and all 263 people on board are scheduled to land in perth australia phyllis welch and her daughter are seated in cabin e at the very back of the enormous jet how's that heroin of yours fanny price fairing oh she's having a tough old time at mansfield pearl it's a good place for me to spend a few hours i wouldn't mind being there myself it's all right mum will get there we had already traversed at least two time zones we were very tired we had flown through bombay through kuala lumpur hadn't been able to get much sleep if any and it was a dark dark pitch black night ahead of betty and phyllis charles capoeira is returning home to perth australia with his two boys chas and stephen all right settle down lids it's time for a nap get back to your seat what do you want to sleep here all right [Music] it was a good flight it was going well leaving london it was great and we was all eager to go home and the two boys were eager to get back to to mum i thought that would be armed in three hours perth they'll be pat and we'll get an attacks and we'll be home while many of the passengers have been traveling for almost a day the crew is fresh they took control of the last stopover in kuala lumpur captain eric moody got his first taste of flying at the age of 16 when he took a gliding lesson [Music] he was one of the first ever trained on the 747. roger check with jakarta jakarta control speed bird nine over haleem at level three seven zero speed nine roger first officer roger greaves has been a co-pilot for more than six years barry townley freeman has been a flight engineer on these aircraft for just a little longer i'd not flown with eric before or barry and that was the first time we'd actually we'd actually met on that that flight as the jet flies over the city of jakarta it's cruising at more than 11 000 meters and has been in the air for an hour and a half captain moody checks his weather radar it shows smooth sailing for the next 500 kilometers all right roger it's all clear just keep your eyes open i'll be back in a moment just gotta use a loop [Music] back in the cabin many of the passengers have fallen asleep while charles capewell and his sons does an ominous haze appears above their heads it's still legal to smoke on passenger jets in 1982 for the cabin crew though the smoke seems thicker than normal [Music] seems to be a lot of smoke out there they begin to worry that a small fire may be smoldering somewhere on the plane maybe somewhere up in the toilet go see if we can find it [Music] a fire at 11 000 meters is a terrifying prospect if there is a blaze somewhere the crew must find it immediately [Music] in the cockpit the flight takes an unsettling turn barry and i were just sitting there mining the shop pitch dark knight of course and then we started to get these impricks of light on the on the windscreen saying elmo's fire i don't think so saint elmo's fire is a natural phenomenon that's sometimes seen when planes fly through highly charged thunder clouds but there aren't supposed to be any thunder clouds tonight [Music] anything on the radar no no it's clear i don't like the look of this let's get a better look out there [Music] with the help of their landing lights the two men are disturbed to see a thin layer of clouds surrounding their plane even though nothing is showing up on their radar but at 37 000 feet the normal thing you would anticipate would be high cirrus which is just a thin layer of cloud [Music] i think we better get the captain back up here [Music] i was reading my book and there was a slight flick of turbulence just a slight flick and i glanced over to the left where i had a clear view of the port wing and to my surprise it was covered in a a brilliant white shimmering light which seemed to be clinging to the wing of the aircraft i carried on reading but i found that i kept reading the same paragraph over and over again and not taking in a word of it i i just didn't know what was happening in the cabin the smoke begins to thicken stewards have been unable to figure out where it's coming from if there's a fire they can't find it [Music] all right well go see that the passengers are comfortable [Music] you smell anything odd mum seems rather smoky in here [Music] i noticed that thick smoke was pouring into the cabin through the vents above the windows and that was a very sobering sight turkish cigarettes [Music] it smelled like sort of a sulfuric electrical smell and i went on that flight deck expecting to hear that we had some electrical smoke somewhere on the aircraft but nothing was further from the truth when did it start or just after you stepped out anything on radar no it's clear not a cloud oh my lord look at engine four it's lit up somehow captain captain have a look at number one it's the same on my side none of the crew have ever seen anything like this before but the light show is just the beginning their bizarre flight is about to take a terrifying turn for the worse [Music] strange lights are striking the windshield of a british airways passenger jet heading to perth australia at the same time the plane's engines are lit by a brilliant white glow look at engine 4 it's lit up somehow this light show if you like it become more intense in fact we ended up sitting there with with two sheets of brilliant white light in front of us in place of the windscreens inside the cabin smoke has been growing thicker chief steward graham skinner has been organizing an intense but quiet search for fire what's with all the smoke there was smoke in the cabin it got really really hot you were perspiring literally drenched in perspiration um the the acrid smoke was at the back of your throat up your nose in your eyes and you were rubbing this and your eyes were running and it was oh it's not not a very nice situation at all flight engineer barry townley-freeman has been checking his instruments carefully he's smelled the smoke but so far has no indication that there's a fire in any of the plane systems can't find anything with one mystery confronting them they're suddenly faced with a frightening new situation the engine's on fire the whole of the the wind was a sheet of light and i thought well i said oh you better close that because we don't want to watch that cheers sit down then i realized that you know something was dramatically wrong there were huge flames coming out of the back of the engines 20 some people said 40 feet long these huge jets of sheer flame shooting out of the back of all the engines is it going to penetrate from the outside of the aircraft is it going to come into the cabin are we going to burn to death are we going to choke to death on the smoke what's going to happen what's causing it what are they going to do about it as fire engulfs the engines one of them revs loudly and flames out engine failure number four fire action number four checklist powering gear set trust lever closed start lever off once one engine fails you call for the drill to shut that one down you have drills for certain things so that you don't have you don't fly together as a crew forever you can fly with different people then and you can standardize the operations the instruments do not indicate a fire on the plane but the passengers can see flames erupting from the engines and stretching down the length of the 747 i could not see the engines from where i was sitting i could only see the space behind them but there was enough glow in that space to convince me that the aircraft was really seriously on fire we were in trouble they knew that as long as they were they knew we were in bad bad trouble and they sort of uh just looked at me as of to say well what are we doing there dad if anything's going to happen i want to be close to you always the cabin crew begins storing anything that's loose they don't want dishes or bottles flying around the cabin if the plane begins to dive don't worry just friction if i was misleading them then that was for a reason because i didn't want to get as upset as i felt i just couldn't believe it and you know and this is going through my mind and yet i'm chatting to the passengers and chatting to the crew oh yeah nothing to worry about yeah it's just a little hiccup you know [Music] the 747 is more than 10 kilometers above the ocean its engines appear to be burning and peculiar smoke continues to fill the cabin and then the unthinkable happens number two engine's gone all right then begin the interception no we'll wait [Music] for four engines to fade [Music] the other three just went out almost immediately and that's when it begins to be a serious emergency [Music] those engines made a grating rumbling sound almost like a cement mixer and then gradually the the noise just disappeared and they became silent a minute and a half we've gone from four engines running normally to having none the 747 has plenty of fuel yet somehow all four of the jets engines have completely stopped working roger declare emergency mayday mayday made a speed bird nine we have lost all four engines out of three seven zero may day may day may day speed bird nine we've lost all four engines with no engine power and no idea what has crippled their plane british airways flight nine begins falling from the sky jakarta control speed bird nine we have lost all four engines now out of three six zero first officer roger greaves issues a may day but he has trouble getting his message across jakarta control speed bird nine we have lost all four engines repeat all four engines now descending through flight level three five zero speed bird nine you have lost number four engine this idiot doesn't understand jakarta control speed bird nine we have lost all four engines repeat all four engines now descending through flight level three five zero the the air traffic control at jakarta unfortunately seem to have a slight problem in understanding what we actually were saying only when another plane nearby relays the mayday call do controllers in jakarta understand now descending through flight level three five zero speed nine all four engines out understood as far as the crew knows no 747 had ever lost power to all of its engines before the crew has to find out why it's happening now i think we've cocked something up we were concerned and worried that we'd done something wrong you know to cause the whole thing all three of us felt exactly the same and and it was it was a personal guilt in the sense of what have i missed what have i done wrong you know because you know this kind of thing doesn't happen while not built for gliding even without its engines a 747 can travel forward 15 kilometers for every kilometer it drops with no power flight 9 has started a long slow fall some 10 kilometers above the ocean the crew has less than half an hour before they smash into the sea when they all stop you go into automatic mode obviously we have practiced this drill on the simulator many many times and that's very good and all very well as long as when it happens to you for real what happens on the airplane is mirrored by what happens to you in the simulator and i'm afraid that wasn't so in the simulator when all four engines stop the autopilot turns off but high above the indian ocean captain moody sees that his autopilot is still on we were all three confused and and concerned that what was happening to us wasn't what we've been told would happen to us all right begin restart drill in the heat of the situation they have no time to figure out why the autopilot is still on on anything anything no again all right then from the top battery check on cross feed valves open fire switch in the standard restart drill takes up to three minutes to complete plunging from the sky the crew has fewer than 10 chances to get their engines going before they run out of time come on again gentlemen all right from the top battery check on crossfit valves open fire switch in at 10 000 meters captain eric moody decides to turn the plane back toward the closest airport haleem just outside jakarta but even that is too far away if he can't get at least some of the engines going again jakarta speed bird nine turning left back to haleem out of three zero zero nine radar cannot save squawk air traffic control asks them to transmit the emergency transponder signal jakarta speed bird nine we are already squawking seven seven zero zero now the crew is flying back to an airport that can't find them on radar without the constant rumble of the engines the cabin is quiet some of the passengers feel the plane beginning to descend but without communication from the cockpit they can only guess the quietness was unbelievable because it was sort of the airplane was no engines nothing it seemed to be eerie you know bit surreal really because like as if he was in suspended in space or something and all you could feel was this quietness and the whimpering from a few people that were really upset some people were sitting quite rigidly almost as if they hadn't noticed anything at first it was it was sheer fear and then after a while it turns to acceptance you know you're going to die we knew we were going to die [Music] what's going on what's the problem it's just a technical fault i've been through much worse let me tell you everything be fine i think if i'd have sat down and really thought of exactly what was happening i don't think i would have ever got up again one steward came up to us and said are you two ladies all right and yes we said we're fine which was an absolute lie but that's how it was it seemed absolutely vital not to panic captain moody can't restart the engines unless he can keep the plane flying between 250 and 270 knots but the air speed indicators aren't working captain i've got 320 knots on my side well i've got 270. bloody hell that's a 50 knot difference i'll change the speed falling from the sky with no engine power the crew now have no idea how fast they're going but to have the best chance to restart the engines captain moody has to have the plane flying at the right speed so from that point onwards eric then varied the speed through through just about 100 knot range hoping that at some point or other coincidental with us putting the fuel into the engines that we would actually be at the right speed to change speeds captain moody turns the autopilot off then he slowly pulls the nose of the jet up to slow it and then pushes it down to increase his speed the upsetting roller coaster movement adds to the panic felt in the cabin at one time the aircraft developed a strange motion it seemed to be climbing steeply and then diving down that was the sensation we got and the [ __ ] action that was so violent that we felt it could break the aircraft up in the air pressure warning captain we're at ten thousand pressure warning that's that's not supposed to do that and a warning horn went off now this didn't have ever happened on the simulator in this exercise so it was a bit of a surprise to us as well as providing electrical power the engines on a jumbo jet help keep the cabin pressurized the engine's not working of course the air wasn't being pumped in so gradually the pressure was leaking away with all four engines gone the pressurized air is rapidly seeping out the thinning level of oxygen makes passengers gasps the crew reach for their oxygen masks but first officer greaves can't get his mask to work my oxygen mask yeah that was a problem i could have done without it was stowed above my head and when i pulled the oxygen mask down the mask and the tube became separated the captain must make a difficult choice if he continues to descend slowly it will get increasingly difficult for first officer greaves to breathe i said if we get down to 20 000 feet um quickly we can all take our auction marks off and we can talk and we're back as a crew again we had to actually increase the rate of descent to descend to a lower altitude quicker which in the circumstances was something that we wouldn't really have chosen to to do so then i dived the airplane and got rid of about 6000 feet in a minute the loss of cabin pressure and the steep dive have another terrifying consequence the things shot down they sort of dangled down in front of you and i looked to see if stephen had got ears and chosen 40s out of the socket so i made sure that chad's got his oxygen i've seen a few movies on the planes and you know once that happens you know you're in serious trouble the oxygen masks came down and we put those to our faces as as had been described in the drill which fortunately we had been observing at the beginning of the flight but it seemed that the oxygen supply was not working the cabin crew tried to use the public address system to explain what's going on but it's not working chief stuart graham skinner makes do with a low-tech backup [Music] can you hear me we're having a small problem with the public address system so if you would place your masks over your mouth and nose and breathe normally as the passengers struggle with their masks captain eric moody is running out of options if his engines don't start soon he'll have to turn his jet around and try landing on the open ocean high above the indian ocean the seemingly impossible has occurred all four engines on a british airways 747 have stopped working and the crew has no idea why first officer roger greaves manages to fix his broken oxygen mask but he's still frustrated by engines that won't start all right barry let's start the restart drill ready set battery check ah standby power all right anything come on anything no all right let's do it from the top battery check oh first officer greaves and engineer barry townley freeman have actually shortened the standard restart drill it's giving them more chances to get the engines going but so far nothing's working the process that we were going through the whole time it was just continuous we hadn't had any success with the drill at all um despite all the efforts we were putting in but it was it was the only thing we had left to cling on to so that's what we did from the top again battery check on i have no idea i don't think any of us have how many times we tried to restart those engines if i say 20 i would think that's too low if i said 50 i would think that's probably about right as the plane falls lower and lower captain moody faces a brutal choice a mountain range cuts across the island of java between his plane and the airport he knows he has to be at least 3 500 meters high to clear it but if his engines don't restart soon they won't make it [Music] at this rate it will crash in a matter of minutes it's just a question of where captain moody decides if the engines don't restart soon he'll turn back towards the ocean and try landing on the water all right are we getting something it's not starting i knew it was so difficult to land airplanes on the sea even when you had everything going for you and i thought that well we haven't got much going for us here i'd never done it before hiding his concern captain moody addresses the passengers and crew ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking we have a small problem all four engines have stopped we're doing our damn just to get under control i trust you are not in too much distress most of the passengers expect the worst uh ma in trouble plane going dan we'll do best for the boys we love you sorry pal i thought we were going down eating for the ocean which crash and i thought if she got the note um you know she knew we were still thinking about it and we did whatever we could will we be burnt alive will we choked by the smoke will the aircraft break up in the air and hurtle us out into space which was my biggest fear or will we come down in the sea and be eaten by sharks alive or will we crash into a mountain let's crash into a mountain quickly and get all this over well nothing it's not starting all right from the top then battery checked oh standby finally captain moody has to decide carry on and likely crash into the mountains or turn around and ditch into the sea [Music] i don't know how to swim i couldn't swim anyway so i thought well you know i'm doomed anyway and i just hope that maybe one of the passengers might help the two boys to make sure that they could stay afloat well everything no all right from the top again we had very few chances left of starting the engines before having to turn out to to sea again because we wouldn't have been able to clear the mountains on the south coast of java and then as suddenly as it had stopped working the fourth engine roars back to life from underneath and then i realized that it might have been an engine it was boom oh my god look the noise that a rolls royce engine makes when it starts up is low rumbling noise you know and it was uh it was just well it was wonderful to hear it a 747 can fly with one engine but captain moody knows that just one engine still won't give him enough power to clear the mountains the glass now is half full it's not half empty we're now in with a real chance and i'll tell you what the three of us would have dragged that airplane around the whole island of java as the plane falls past 4000 meters another engine coughs and comes back to life engine 3 back online it's followed quickly by the final two i don't believe it engines one and two both back online from almost certain disaster the crippled jet is now under full power [Music] i realized then that we could make it back to not to perth but to to an airport that's all we wanted was to land on on the earth and you know be part of the living again because while we were up there we were dead jakarta speed bird nine we are back in business all four running all four this time local controllers have no trouble understanding the message all four engines serviceable again confirmed affirmative affirmative we say right let's get this thing on the ground as quickly as we can ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking we seem to have overcome that problem and have managed to start all the engines [Applause] we are diverting to jakarta and expect to land in about 15 minutes captain moody begins climbing putting plenty of room between his plane and the mountains below but as he does the strange lights that he saw when the crisis began reappear in front of the jet [Music] as soon as we got to 15 000 feet this almost fire started again now i'm not slow so i said let's get out of here quickly [Music] but before he can descend very far the plane is stripping again engine 2 is surging the whole airplane was shaking it was just going bang bang bang the atmosphere in the cabin was very tense and very quiet by then i think very few people were talking i think there were quite a lot of prayers going up the engines back fire violently the captain must make another fateful decision begin shutdown drill checklist powering gear off thrust level closed we were reluctant to do it as you can probably understand but you know that was it so we were back on three engines now i'm not a coward but when you've had four engines going no engines going you get four going and tell me show me any pilot that will quickly shut down that engine because you're worried that they're all going to stop again jakarta speed bird 9 leaving 154 120 we are now on three engines [Music] as the plane closes in on the airport first officer greaves thinks the windshield is covered in moisture making it hard to see through and i said i said to eric i said it's a bit misty out there so we turned turned the blowers on to cut you know like do misters on your car to try and and uh clear that that didn't work i used the windscreen wipers and that didn't work somehow the glass itself has been badly damaged for some other reason i looked out the edge of my windscreen and about a two-inch strip down the edge on the left-hand side i could see much more clearly but i couldn't see anything much at the front it it was getting more and more opaque the nearer nearer we got to the lights the crew get a final unwelcome surprise equipment on the ground that helps them descend at the proper angle isn't working the localizer which gives you the left and right of the runway center line that was working but the glide slope which gives you the actual profile for the descent was not working after all the troubles they've been through now the crew has to land their plane manually we then continued with eric flying the localizer and me calling out the distance and the altitude that he should be at 300 feet captain so he was then able to adjust his rate of descent to what i was telling him as far as the glide surf was concerned 200 150 feet captain 100 50 feet 30 feet [Applause] reverse [Applause] [Music] 90 knots 80 knots [Music] [Music] we're down [Music] [Laughter] it could be really good for a cold soda and the aeroplane just landed itself it seemed to anyway it kissed the earth it was beautiful wow that's amazing safely on the ground at halim airport in jakarta passengers celebrate the end of a harrowing ordeal they also want to know what happened no fire had been found so why had smoke filled the cabin how could all four engines have stopped at nearly the same time what were the strange lights that surrounded the plane [Music] in the cockpit the flight crew are relieved but also concerned that they might be at fault the first thing that we did having parked the airplane and shut it all down um was to then go through all the paperwork to see if there was possibly anything anywhere in it that might have given us any pre-warning of some sort of phenomenon that caused what happened to us every time because it's going to come back to us the damage to the 747 is extensive from the outside the crew realized that their windshield had been deeply scratched they see bare metal showing through where the paint has somehow been stripped away and they still have no idea why any of it happened when investigators uncover the cause of the disaster flight 9 changes pilot training around the world [Music] during a calm flight to australia all four engines of a british airways 747 suddenly stopped working after a long terrifying descent the crew managed to restart the engines and land wow that's that's amazing [Music] they spent an excited and largely sleepless night in jakarta before returning to haleem airport to inspect their plane and we went back the next day to look at it in daylight the aeroplane had lost its sheen and in some places it had been sandblasted quite well and all the decals and the paint had come off it really was very little to see until they strip the engine stand the engines were manufactured by rolls-royce their investigation was led by a former engineer malcolm grayburn three of the engines were removed in jakarta following the incident and were ferried back via cargo aircraft to london heathrow and then transported to south wales where the engines were in fact stripped down into peace parts and it was there that i got involved greyburn was stunned by what he saw much of the engine was badly scratched and scored we did do a forensic analysis of the engines we did record it all in terms of photographic analysis and also we did a lot of laboratory analysis greyburn discovered the engines were choked with fine dust pieces of rock and sand when it was closely studied they learned that the debris was clearly volcanic ash days after their harrowing flight the passengers and crew learned that the night they were flying there had been a major eruption of the mount galangong volcano located just 160 kilometers southeast of jakarta [Music] tom cassideval is director of the u.s geological survey and has studied the galangong volcano indonesia is the world's most volcanically active country it has more than 130 historically active volcanoes meaning volcanoes which have erupted in the last several thousand years golem gong erupted explosively early in the 1980s in april may june of 1982 the eruptions became increasingly more powerful the eruptions were large and the damage was extensive more than 60 000 people were evacuated from the area around the mountain the night flight 9 flew nearby the volcano erupted again as the ash cloud rose more than fifteen thousand metres into the night winds pushed it to the south west right into the path of british airways flight nine [Music] never before had a volcanic cloud seriously affected an airplane could the ash really have crippled this flight [Music] roger declare emergency mayday mayday made a speed bird nine we have lost all four engines unlike ash that you might see in a chimney or after a fire in a forest this is not soft material at all this is very fine ground up particles of solid rock and minerals this material is very very abrasive it's very angular in shape if you were to see it under a microscope you would see very sharp angles and so that's what caused the abrasion in addition to sand blasting the windshield and all the leading edges of the plane could the ash cloud explain all the other strange phenomena the passengers and crew had experienced remember the aircraft is moving in close to 500 miles per hour as it's flying into that cloud even though it's a very fine material it can still cause abrasion and friction on the skin of the aircraft because it's such a dry environment up there that frictional produces the glow that we refer to as saint elmo's fire the electrification also caused the interference in communication experienced by the crew of the volcanic ash that was sucked in and ground up by the engines was also blown into the plane and when passengers and crews saw it swirling through the cabin they feared the worst you're a passenger you're looking out the window suddenly you start breathing this sulfurous sulfur-laden air in the cabin and it probably is a choking probably a shocking uh sensation it's essentially a house of horrors type situation while the volcanic ash caused the visible scarring filled the plane with smoke and fouled communications could it cause the engines to flame out as well an x-ray from front to back a turbo fan jet engine works by sucking in enormous amounts of air the air is then highly pressurized by the engine's compressor this tightly packed air is mixed with fuel and ignited the force of this reaction propels the jet through the sky [Music] the temperature in the combustion chamber where this ash is flowing through are around 2000 degrees centigrade and so the volcanic ash we know melts at about 1300 1400 degrees [Music] but when the liquid ash reached deeper into the engine it cooled slightly turning into a sticky molten goo it attached itself to the engine and began choking it we got a fundamental disturbance of the airflow in the main core of the engine which caused the engine to backfire and the engines flamed out and that was the cause of the problem backfires occur when the engine isn't burning cleanly there's too much fuel and not enough oxygen [Music] engine failure number four fire action number four checklist powering gear on flight nine the backfires were the cause of the enormous jets of flame many passengers saw behind the engines after struggling against the choking effects of the ash cloud the engines on board the 747 flamed out what greyburn found next was that a remarkable piece of chemistry saved the plane as soon as you came out of the volcanic ash and the engines were not running remember so everything cooled down it was enough for this stuff to break off and allow the engines to restart when enough of the molten ash was gone the engines were clear again and townley freeman's frantic efforts to restart them paid off engine 4 back online we have learned quite a bit and we've incorporated this learning into pilot training pilots now for example know what signs to look for when they might be in an ash cloud and those signs include the odor of sulfur in the cabin dust accumulating in the cabin and if you're at night you might look out and see the frictional electrification or the saint elmo's fire on the leading edges of the aircraft another important lesson learned from flight 9 is that volcanic ash clouds do not appear on normal weather radar which reflects water since the clouds are dry they're all but invisible to radar that knowledge has led to better communications between the geologists that study volcanoes and the international airlines that fly over them [Music] the crew of flight nine was showered with awards and commendations in the months after their incredible night i thought the airmanship displayed by this crew during this event was absolutely fantastic the way that they managed to guide this aircraft back down to a safe landing after having been through such extreme circumstances it was fantastic the way they recovered this aircraft absolutely brilliant for everyone on board flight nine the terrifying plunge through the skies had a lasting impact betty tutel was so struck by the events of that night that she wrote a book about the ordeal this was an event which was unique in aviation history and it seemed to me absolutely vital that it should be put on record and i wondered who was going to do this but no sooner had that thought entered my mind than i thought i'm going to do that [Music] tutel would also end up marrying a man she met on the flight james ferguson charles capewell and his two sons made it home two days after they touched down in jakarta 25 years later both chaz and stevens still live in perth our time hadn't came and that was it from then on i took a different view of life when your time comes there's nothing you can do but you can still hope and we hoped and we got out of it not long after their fateful flight captain eric moody created the galangang gliding club every member of the crew and all passengers were automatically admitted to this exclusive group [Music] the survivors of british airways flight 9 happily stay in touch to this day you

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Published: Thu Sep 02 2021