I was just reading the story of British Airways Flight 9 on Wikipedia. I hope that some day when I get into difficulty as a pilot, I’m as calm as Captain Moody:
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.
That’s just beat out Captain Al Haynes “You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?” as my favourite aviation quote.
Berry says:
I had the very good fortune to hear Captain Haynes speak at an AOPA safety meeting once. His account was riveting.
Haynes and Moody are true heroes.
January 18, 2008, 21:27 GMTAnthony de Boer says:
You should deo volente have more time to deal with things, having only a quarter as many pilot-coolers to restart.IIRC, “Boost - check - change - check - check - rich - hot - both” and I’m not even a pilot, I just shared a campsite with my brother in New Zealand one evening back in 1987 under what turned out to be the circuit of an airport conducting a lot of training and EFATO drills, and as a then-new pilot himself he rattled off the checklist everytime the music overhead stopped.
January 19, 2008, 03:43 GMT