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.
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.
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.