Wardialer From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 1160 posts, RR: 0 Posted (10 years 4 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 1271 times:
Last night I was listening to this man on Ham Radio (KG6RLP) and he was telling us that a while back this B747 had flown into an ash cloud from an erupting volcano and had its all 4 engines fail. The aircraft was flying at about 39000 feet (FL390) and plumeted until about 11000 or 9000 feet until they had finally restarted all engines. He also stated that the B747 suffered airframe damage from the extreme G-forces.
Had anyone heard about this story? By the way, he is an experienced private pilot and to ALL people that think private prop aircraft are unsafe, than you are all wrong. He told us that it is just CARELESSNESS!!. That some pilots wont even do a walk around. He also told this story about this one pilot that he went up airborne forgetting that he still had his aircraft's flaps locked up from a piece of nail. (He had the nail there to protect the flaps from moving around from the wind) But evidentally he forgot to take it out and just crashed after a few hundred feet from the ground and crashed on a tree. All people were killed in that crash.
Redngold From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 6907 posts, RR: 51 Reply 2, posted (10 years 4 months 3 weeks 4 days ago) and read 1244 times:
Yes, this happened. It was a British Airways flight over Indonesia, from Java to Perth, during the eruption of Mt. Galunggung in 1982. Here are some links:
Jayhup From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 441 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (10 years 4 months 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1186 times:
TWAL1011 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 194 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (10 years 4 months 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1175 times:
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Apathoid From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (10 years 4 months 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1168 times:
I was wrong..but not by as much as you all are saying. It was:
DEC.14.1989 747-406 PH-BFC 23982 K L M Anchorage area/AK/USA all four engines failed when flying through ashcloud of Mount Redoubt; pilots managed to restart the engines at ~FL180
TWAL1011 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 194 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (10 years 4 months 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1157 times:
Apparently, there must be two such incidences.
The one that some of us are talking about occurred on June 24, 1992 to G-BDXH. There is an excellent account of it in Macarthur Job's Air Disaster Volume 2.
Apathoid From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (10 years 4 months 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1151 times:
Could be...I never heard of the Jakarta incident...but I know first hand the KLM flight landed in Anchorage, with no forward visibility due to the sand blasted windshield and a couple of engines barely running. 231 souls on board. It is an amazing and terrifying tale.
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