What These Pilots did was Amazing! | British Airways flight 9

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The unsung hero in this incident is captain Moody's bladder.

Captain Eric Moody passed away earlier today at the age of 84

“We have a small problem, all four engines have stopped.” British understatement at its finest.

"I trust you are not too distressed about this." This was so British. Also the old WW2 veteran who was not impressed and immediately tried to top this story with his own.

"A small problem in that all our four engines have failed". Oh, man, that is quite an understatement.

R.I.P Captain Moody. You and your crew did an outstanding job getting everyone down safely.

R.I.P Captain Eric Moody, your bravery and airmanship will never be forgotten.

Omg I thought the parts with Captain were from some news article but you actually had a chance to talk to the Captain for this video. He seems to be a lovely person and a great Captain

Absolutely brilliant crew. "A small problem insofar as all our engines have failed."

In an interview with some of the crew, a question was asked about legendary British courage and keeping a "stiff upper lip" during the ordeal. One answered; "The upper lip may have been stiff but the knees were definitely knocking".

I was an air hostess in 2005 and flew with Captain Moody at BA. We saw this incident on training but I didn't realise it was him at the time.

Flight 9 is just an example of diligence and pure skill out of the pilots and engineer. "Never give up. Never surrender." They pulled it off. They saved the plane and the passengers.

My favourite tale about this incident is that Capt Moody said that everyone on the aircraft was now an honorary member of his Jakarta gliding ciub! What a guy! Leader of an exemplary team!!

The best part of this particular event discussion is that you had Captain Moody online with you giving you real time information. So many of your incident reports cannot include a member of the flight crew, but this was a refreshing additional component. Anytime you can do this, please add it to your outstanding videos.

In the late 80's I used to work at Rolls Royce in Derby and this flight was still talked about. The story I heard was that when those engines came back for inspection and repairs the engineers were amazed he even got one restarted let alone all 4 the damage on them was that great having said that RB211 engines were known for being over engineered (as I would hope all Jet engines are) and could run in some amazing conditions.

RIP Captain Moody. 🙏 😢❤ Thank you for your heroic service.

I had the honour, many years ago to be flown in a glider by Capt Moody. We were towed up on the first attempt by a winch line which broke at 1000 ft, much too low for a safe flight. Capt Moody banked right and circled in to a perfect landing, I was about 15 at the time and shaking like a leaf. I looked at him and said something like, "that was a quick reaction and a great landing, you must fly these a lot", he just smiled and said "Oh yes, but not as many hours as the 747"! We re-attached the winch and I had the best glider flight of my life.

You know it’s a bad situation when you’re in an airliner and the pilots “glider experience” comes into play.

The fires aside, that plane had to have gotten very quiet very fast when all four engines went down.