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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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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I literally cannot tell the difference.

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

[–] tool@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 5 points 11 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.

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 6 points 11 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 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_009 Awesome story here

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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!

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 11 months ago

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

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

Eyyafyatlayakötül

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Or a cognate, Eyfallicle; ey as in island, fall as in a valley(?), icle from icicle.

Mér líkar þetta málið!

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 11 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.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 11 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.