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The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered

Жыл бұрын

Human history has always been at the mercy of mother nature, and a uniquely human invention- airplanes- are particularly vulnerable to one of the most powerful forces of nature- volcanic eruptions.
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@jeffsaxton2051 Жыл бұрын

My dad was in the 489th Bomb Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, and remembered the 1944 Vesuvius eruptions. I have his Squadron Yearbook with various photos of the event.

@DavidBrown-cs1tq Жыл бұрын

My Dad was there also. He was the 5th Army Mess Sgt and had to set up field kitchens to feed the civilians that were being evacuated and the troops helping evacuate them

@theswaff699 Жыл бұрын

Damn, you're dad's been alive since 79AD?

@EperogiLimousine Жыл бұрын

@@theswaff699 1944 eruption dingus,

@daerdevvyl4314 Жыл бұрын

NolanDoesStuff Because every volcano only erupts once, right?

@pamelamays4186 Жыл бұрын

That British Airways captain's announcement to his passengers is the most British thing I've ever heard.🧑‍✈️✈️🧐

@rexstetson1717 Жыл бұрын

It seemed inappropriate to me. He could have just let the passengers know they were experiencing issues without stating what the issues were. There was no reason to give specifics. If I had been a passenger onboard that flight, I probably would have shat myself before dying of a heart attack after hearing that announcement.

@doofus02 Жыл бұрын

@@rexstetson1717 he probably assumed he was speaking to like minded British passengers. I imagine there were multiple instances of someone saying "Oh, bother." with a concerned furrow in their brow.

@gordonsmith4884 Жыл бұрын

@@doofus02 Or "No engines? Will there still be tea?"

@anathema2325 Жыл бұрын

@@rexstetson1717 trying to keep it up on a wing and a prayer, he's doing the wing least the passengers could do is provide the prayer

@daerdevvyl4314 Жыл бұрын

doofus02 That reminds me of something I read once, where a British newspaper referred to the American Revolution which was currently happening as "the unpleasantness."

@katrix110 Жыл бұрын

Friendly community geologist (PhD student) and aviation nerd (national air and space museum volubteer) here! There is some WILD stuff that happens when volcanoes meet airplanes- you covered most of it. The craziest related phenomenon is along the Alaska flight route- The Valley of 10,000 Smokes is basically a giant field full of volcanic ash from the 1912 Novarupta eruption. When winds are at specific strengths and in specific directions, the ash can actually be blown up into the air and will cause air traffic control to reroute jets even today- and this is because of an eruption that happened over a century ago. Thus, a volcano doesn’t even have to be erupting for airplanes to be at risk of a volcanic meltdown. Feel free to reach out for more info/extra questions if the topic comes up for the podcast or a recap, if you’d like :)

@Vile-Flesh Жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@bubbasgood Жыл бұрын

A company I worked for in the early 80s supplied cool air intake vains for one of the boeing planes that went through a volcanic ash cloud. We recueved feed back that our parts survived with only a sandblasted apperance and could have possibly been resused when most of the other turbine parts were beyond salvage. Business was good after that. An inside company joke on the Quality Assurance Documentation was little note VT for volcano tested.

@shawnreece6130 Жыл бұрын

Great job pronouncing the name of that Icelandic volcano, I would have never gotten through that.

@sherirobinson6867 Жыл бұрын

He definitely did his homework 😅

@chillindave1357 Жыл бұрын

No kidding!

@jameswolf133 Жыл бұрын

As I once heard about talking to people in Iceland, “No they’re not being jerks. The place names are literally unpronounceable!”

@terryhollands2794 Жыл бұрын

@@chillindave1357 my words exactly 😊

@LowEarthOrbitPilot Жыл бұрын

A friend of mine from the region told me it was pronounced, “eye-ah-fyallah-yo-kool”.

@charleskyler1928 Жыл бұрын

My wife was one of those affected by the air travel of the 2010 Icelandic eruption. We worked for days to try and find a way for her to get home. She was on the last flight out of Marseille France made it into Madrid, Spain and was able to fly back to the US from Madrid. She has a photo of the departures board from Madrid, showing all flights except hers being canceled. Thanks for the history.

@Paladin1873 Жыл бұрын

My brother was a USAF C-141 Starlifter navigator in 1991 and had to evacuate American military families from Clark Air Base in the Philippines following the Mt Pinatubo disaster. Each person was allowed to bring two suitcases with them. Everything else was left behind for local scavengers to salvage (steal). We ended up closing Clark AB and the US Navy base at Subic Bay. These peacetime losses dwarfed the damage done at the Pompeii airfield in 1944.

@LadyAnuB Жыл бұрын

Interesting note on these bases. The Philippines want to use the US military to counter China now. What a difference 30 years makes.

@davidatovar Жыл бұрын

Now I remember Mt. Pinatubo, thanks !

@davidatovar Жыл бұрын

And thanks to your family service !

@Paladin1873 Жыл бұрын

@@davidatovar You are welcome, though others did far more.

@lizj5740 Жыл бұрын

When Russia (the U.S.S.R.) invaded Hungary to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, we were living in base housing in Mannheim, Germany. Our family consisted of dad, who would have to remain there to fight, and mom and four children, one only 5 months old. Dad, then a captain in the Chemical Corps, brought a rifle (or pistol?) home. Each dependent family was allowed to pack one box to take with them if evacuation became necessary. Thank goodness it didn't: I would have had to leave my toy horses and stable behind. (Hey, I was only 9.)

@NVRAMboi Жыл бұрын

I might not look smarter, but I feel smarter having watched this episode. Thanks HG!

@taitano12 Жыл бұрын

This is one of many things in History that don't DESERVE to be remembered, but NEED to be remembered. Pilots learn of this stuff even when going through Private Pilot's Certification. It's not not necessarily covered in Recreational Pilot's training, though it is covered in RPC training here in the shadow of Mount Baker, Glacier and Rainier. Edit: BTW, I don't think the new tech will relegate these incidents to history, but it will reduce them.

@-jeff- Жыл бұрын

The fact that ashes caused so few crashes is history that deserves to be remembered. 🌋 🛩

@thomasblanchard6778 Жыл бұрын

l remember in a nursery rhyme "Ashes, ashes, we all fall down!"

@davidatovar Жыл бұрын

I'm thinking about MH370 ? ✈🌋🤔

@EperogiLimousine Жыл бұрын

@@thomasblanchard6778 tissues

@am2dan Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU for not posting this yesterday when my son was on a plane to Tokyo. It was out of transponder range and didn't show on flightradar24 for a very long time as it was flying east of Kamchatka where there's been a volcano spewing ash. I assumed it was still in the air, but there was still that little bit of worry in the back of my mind that would have been greatly magnified if I had just watched this. (He arrived just fine.)

@CaptainJerry- Жыл бұрын

As a Merchant Mariner I have had volcanic ash rain on my ships from Mt St Helens, Mt Etna, Mt Tavurvur in Rabaul, PNG.

@RetiredSailor60 Жыл бұрын

Good morning from Ft Worth TX History Guy and everyone watching. I was supposed to have gone to Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius in 1995 while deployed to the Mediterranean on USS Whidbey Island LSD 41. But the conditions in Bosnia cancelled the port visit to Naples.

@georgewnewman3201 Жыл бұрын

I remember the Speedbird 9 incident. As I recall, they got the engines restarted, climbed to altitude again, only to have the engines shut down again. They then got some restarted the second time on the way back to Jakarta but stayed at a lower altitude only to worry about whether they had enough clearance to get over the mountain range between the airplane and the airport.

@quillmaurer6563 Жыл бұрын

8:50 Having British ancestry, I describe even rather catastrophic things - such as being hit by a train or a school catching on fire - as "inconvenient." Because, being less than losing all four engines for unknown reasons imperiling 263 lives, they aren't on the level of a "small problem."

@ronaldschoolcraft8654 Жыл бұрын

I used to be a design engineer on Allison Model 250 gas turbine engines which are used heavily in helicopters. Tourist helicopters flying in and around volcanoes in Hawaii had many engine problems as a result. Sulfudation of the turbine blades was one serious problem. Several went down in or near volcanoes during the seven years that I worked on that program.

@larsenjbl Жыл бұрын

I flew into Guayaquil more than a few years ago, and just about the time I was landing, a volcano erupted near Quito. Fast forward a few days and my meetings were over, but my return flight had been cancelled - along with all flights in the interim. There were many hundreds of stranded passengers for a couple of days until the airlines resumed operations.

@Kevin_Carlson Жыл бұрын

I'm an expat living in Ecuador. In 2015 my wife and I were traveling from Quito to Houston. As we were preparing to board the plane the airline agent announced "please take your seats quickly. There is ash in the air from Mt. Cotopaxi and the pilot needs to take off as soon as possible." Fortunately we made it.

@Orxenhorf Жыл бұрын

I don't remember the airline or flight number, but there was a PBS or cable show on an airliner that lost power from the engines for an unknown reason with nothing obvious external or damage to the plane itself. They only figured that one out after taking apart the engine and finding a layer of glass covering internal parts.

@rbeard7580 Жыл бұрын

I was stationed on Guam in the early 80’s, flying the B-52. In the Squadron they kept a souvenir of a B-52’s volcano encounter: A badly crazed, nearly opaque small “eyebrow” window from the plane’s cockpit. I believe the remaining window segments were sent around to be displayed at other Air Force bases. I never heard the full story of what happened, but we were briefed that severe engine damage was another possibility. Our low level practice routes took us over several remote volcanic islands, some of them occasionally belching smoke. We were to avoid those doing so, and immediately report them so the route could be immediately changed for any following aircraft.

@MrScott1171 Жыл бұрын

I was watching @GeologyHub earlier. He does mention when a volcano has erupted about air routes possibly being closed due to an eruption or possible eruption. He has many videos about many historic volcanic events too.

@R182video Жыл бұрын

I was in the UK when the Icelandic volcano let loose in 2010. There were many others in my company there as well. My flight back to the US left a day earlier than the others and I was watching the plane's track on the on board map display. Instead of taking the great circle route that is normally used, I noticed that at a certain point the plane suddenly tracked due west across the Atlantic, then when we got close to Newfoundland returned to following the great circle route. I arrived home and those who were to leave the next day ended up with an unexpected European vacation until the air travel restrictions were lifted.

@navret1707 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been in both Iceland and Sicily. Those volcanoes are definitely attention grabbing even though they both were generally minor eruptions.

@baneverything5580 Жыл бұрын

There are several very dangerous volcanoes showing signs of erupting right now in Alaska, Germany, North Korea, Japan, Italy, Columbia, and Iceland etc. The ones in Alaska have a history of causing volcanic Winters. See documentaries about the 536 A.D. mystery cataclysm. We depend 100% on agriculture yet nothing is ever said about what these volcanoes can do and have done and will certainly do again. It`s disgusting to ignore this and do nothing to prepare.

@Chris_at_Home Жыл бұрын

We’re you in a Patrol Squadron? I climbed Mt Etna with some friends in 1973 when I was In Sigonella.

@navret1707 Жыл бұрын

@@Chris_at_Home VP-10 and -24. In 1973 I was in -30. Who where you with?

@Chris_at_Home Жыл бұрын

@@navret1707 I was in VP-23 from 1972 to 1975. My older brother was in VP-10 from 1963-1967.

@navret1707 Жыл бұрын

@@Chris_at_Home - I missed your brother by a year. I was in -10 from 1968 - 1971.

@williamromine5715 Жыл бұрын

My father was flown home by the Red Cross from the Pacific war because my mother had broken her leg. He said they flew over an erupting volcano. (If memory serves me right, it was over Mexico. He said it was an beautifull sight. After making sure my mom was not too incapacitated, he was returned to his ship. He was in the Merchant Marines. I remember my mom being on crutches(I was born in January of 1942), and thought she wouldn't be able to catch me if I ran when it was time for my nap. I was wrong...and I never ran from her again. It's funny what memories we retain from childhood. Another memory was seeing a Goodyear blimp and thinking it was an atom bomb. This time I ran home scared to death.

@johnmcnally7812 Жыл бұрын

Always enjoyed Moody's iconic quote that the experience was "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse"

@shawnr771 Жыл бұрын

I might have enjoyed the quote, but I shudder to think how he knew the comparison.

@wheelieblind Жыл бұрын

Wow... I'm glad they were able to get the engines to work again.

@snotgurgletroll1812 Жыл бұрын

Love your pronunciation of Icelandic names (volcanoes)!

@elsiestormont1366 Жыл бұрын

As a 30 + year resident of Fairbanks, Alaska, I have witnessed the effects of Mt. Redoubt's activity on air travel. More than once, the Fairbanks International Airport has filled up with planes originally bound for Anchorage. The locals will go by the airport to get a look at all the different planes that we usually don't get to see up here. Also, with a major airbase and army post in Anchorage (Elmendorf/Richardson) as well as Fairbanks' own Eielson AFB and Army post Ft. Wainwright, Alaskan volcanic activity can have a huge impact on the US military ability to mobilize in the northern hemishere. Another bit of trivia: Crews literally shrink wrap the jets grounded in Anchorage after an eruption to keep falling ash out of the engines.

@CwL-1984 Жыл бұрын

I never thought about these two things at the same time.

@suzannetitkemeyernlq Жыл бұрын

You did a great job! I live in Costa Rica. We have active volcanoes. Occasionally they suspend all flights in and out of our country's airports/airspace because of the fumes and ash.

@otpyrcralphpierre1742 Жыл бұрын

I remember flying from a Cuidad Del Carmen in southern Mexico and flying around an erupting volcano. We diverted a little to the west of the event, but when we passed it, the pilot announced to look out the window to see the volcano that was pushing ash and smoke into the sky. It was a beautiful sight, but I didn't even realize the danger that we were going around. Beauty is not always Generous.

@seegurke93 Жыл бұрын

As an airline pilot i can confirm that thats not fun at all... most important thing is to do an 180 out of an ash cloud and keep the thrust at minimum. best is to do the 180 and descend with idle power to have the minimum ash on the engines. It more than once happened to completly scratch the wind shield so you have 0 visibility and engines having to be shut down. luckily there are ashtams that warn us pilots and also the swc (significant weather chart) has i marked if there is an active vulcanoe, so you take enough extra fuel and just fly around :) Grüße B737&A320 Pilot

@matthewbyrd2329 Жыл бұрын

I would love to see an episode on the Tenerife Disaster.

@raywhitehead730 Жыл бұрын

Hey, History Guy I flew into Two volcanos on purpose. Navy helicopter Aviator. First in was Mnt. Saint Helens about a year After the explosion/eruption. I did it purely out of curiosity. It was a mistake! We flew through the mostly invisible Hydrogen Sulfide gas coming up from the volcano. My whole crew immediately became very nauseous. I felt ill for two days and stayed in my room the entire time. The second volcano was years latter, Hit Weighs in Antarctica. Totally different circumstance.

@raywhitehead730 Жыл бұрын

Mount Eribus, Antarctica. Auto spell seems to sometimes kick in after I hut send.

@MightyMezzo Жыл бұрын

Loved hearing your account of British Airways flight 009. According to a “Mayday” documentary, the passengers later formed “The Flight 009 Glider Club.” BTW, I’d be curious to know how much practice it took to master pronunciation of the Icelandic volcano names.

@codenamecatatonic8894 Жыл бұрын

I had no idea Mt Vesuvius had another major eruption in modern times or that we had troops stationed at “Pompey Airfield” Thank you for posting & to the Veterans that served. Great video. 👍

@jeremyroland5602 Жыл бұрын

I’m very glad he talked about British Airways 009. You can’t talk about volcanic ash and airplanes without talking about that incident. If anyone is interested in more details about it, Mentour Pilot made a great video about it.

@onliwankannoli Жыл бұрын

They really need to make a movie about volcanoes and planes, and it MUST star Samuel L. Jackson.

@timothymulholland7905 Жыл бұрын

In august/2011 my wife and I visited Argentina, with a stop at Bariloche. A volcano just across the Andes in Chile had been spewing all over. The airport was closed and the city was covered in gray ash, with millions of tiny glass beads all over. Needless to say, skiing was out and the town was empty of tourists at the height of skiing season. We’ll try to go back when the volcanos are quiet.

@glenmartin2437 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. That was a good reminder. My mother's people are from Italy. I got interested in volcanoes as a kid. Our laboratory received water samples from Mount Pinatubo and I was able to perform analyses on them years ago. That was interesting.

@BigboiiTone Жыл бұрын

i love the deadpan of the captain. "Nothing to be concerned about but we lost all 4 engines. Don't worry tho it will probably be all good" At least no one was killed

@markdodd1152 Жыл бұрын

People joke with me about the calmness of my tone when there's an emergency situation. So I can relate to the captain

@markloveless1001 4 ай бұрын

Leave us not forget Mount Tambora gave us a rained-in Mary Shelley. "Let's write scary stories!" Oh, she did, bigtime.

@Eric_Hutton.1980 Жыл бұрын

All Four Engines Have Failed is a good read about the British Airways Boeing 747 that flew into the ash cloud of Mount Galunggung in the early 1980s.

@captainskippy6622 Жыл бұрын

My wife and I left LaGuardia airport during this in 2010 headed to Milan Italy. We later found out we were the last plane allowed across the ocean to Europe from NY. It was the start of a long miserable flight. We went a dizzying route to keep us away from the plume. There was a monitor on a bulkhead that gave a general idea of our route and I noticed at one point we were over some part of Russia and this caused me some concern. We finally had to land in Rome because the Pilot said we were low on fuel. For some reason we were not allowed off the plane and set there for 5 hours. Many passengers including myself were becoming fed up. Finally we went wheels up and eventually landed in Milam. We were in that plane for 24 hours total. It was miserable but the vacation made up for it.

@robertmoffett3486 Жыл бұрын

A couple of minutes in, I texted my daughter about this, which we weren't aware of. Even though she visited Pompeii, and climbed Vesuvius just two summers ago, and intends to return. Live and learn. Thanks, History Guy, for educating us

@lanceferraro3781 Жыл бұрын

I watched Etna erupt, also Stormboli and on the Hawaiian Big Island, Kilauea. I lived in Waikiki Beach, and when Kilauea erupted sometimes trade winds would blow the sulpherous gasses over to Oahu. On the way, atmospheric moisture would mix with the sulpherous gasses and make VOlcanic Fog, which we called VOG. Eyes, throats, noses, lungs, ears, skin would become very irritated. Just had to endure, the only way to get away from it was to leave the island.

@jimwolaver9375 Жыл бұрын

Where's my pirates? Seriously, great video as always. Too bad there aren't more content producers in your league.

@DorisS75 Жыл бұрын

You dovetailed with Green Dot Aviation this week! It's really cool the way watching both completes the story. You gave historical context and he gave specific details.

@laserbeam002 Жыл бұрын

Without a doubt one of the best channels on KZfaq. Thank you for posting.

@iroh1048 Жыл бұрын

Good subject. Very informative and very well presented.

@akdrywallguy60 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations for pronouncing the Talkeetna Mountains in AK correctly. You're one of the very few who get it right without correction! Cheers from Talkeetna, AK (pop 1055)!

@Murkosk Жыл бұрын

Great video, thank you.

@Murkosk Жыл бұрын

This is a scam☝️

@chillindave1357 Жыл бұрын

My favorite channel 😊

@halcyonOH Жыл бұрын

Great video, big fan of anything volcanoes.

@andrewstevenson118 Жыл бұрын

My wife and I took our first overseas trip during the 2010 eruptions. There was real doubt whether we could get from our home, in New Zealand, to Munich. But we did. Our next overseas trip was to London in 2012 and someone died on the flight. So, a couple of interesting first two flights. 🙂

@constipatedinsincity4424 Жыл бұрын

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!

@Mike-DuBose Жыл бұрын

You dared to dream. When others were content, you worked harder. When others settled, you reached higher. You are one of life’s inspiring characters. Enjoy the happiness from this great achievement.

@jeffbangkok Жыл бұрын

Good evening

@edstahl9802 8 ай бұрын

I never realized that volcanoes were that intertwined to aviation. Thanks History Guy.

@Svensk7119 Жыл бұрын

"All four engines have failed." One of the passengers turned that into a book. The plane looked like it had been sand-blasted. The passengers are now The Galagung Gliding Club.

@roberttaylor7637 Жыл бұрын

Another Great Episode. I love volcanos.

@michaelroloson2389 Жыл бұрын

Great job once again HG. I love your programs.

@ElicBehexan Жыл бұрын

I believe I remember the 2010 volcano trapped the then new Doctor from the show Doctor Who in the States. He was here for a convention.

@gregoryforde7447 Жыл бұрын

Many Thanks

@pauljaworski9386 Жыл бұрын

I've read that a day before the Pompeii eruption a B25 came back from it's bomb run. It didn't drop it's bombs so instead of landing with the bombs they dropped them in the volcano crater The next day it blew it's top. Some blame the B25 that dropped it's bombs in the crater for the eruption.

@RCAvhstape Жыл бұрын

If that's true it's a great story. "American bomber crew angers the gods!"

@dziban303 Жыл бұрын

Modern geostationary weather satellites are capable of detecting both volcanic ash clouds and sulfur dioxide plumes emitted from volcanoes, using their infrared imagers. Polar orbiting weather satellites can do the same and at higher resolution, but with much more intermittent coverage. Machine learning techniques are being used to spot and characterize these plumes automatically and alert human forecasters at the VAACs and elsewhere, so warnings can be issued. The geostationary sats take a new image of the entire hemisphere in view every ten minutes, allowing warnings to go out right away. The entire globe is covered. Very cool

@Ulani101 Жыл бұрын

A wide-body passenger aircraft with all engines out of action sounds remarkably terrifying for anyone on board: especially the poor bugger flying it. To quote one of my favourite fictional characters, "Let's see if this b*st*rd can fly."

@AskTorin Жыл бұрын

Your pronunciation of the jøkul is the best I've ever heard of an American. Love your channel!

@BasicDrumming Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you, thank you for making content.

@RCAvhstape Жыл бұрын

The captain of Speedbird 9 made the most British announcement ever.

@frankgulla2335 Жыл бұрын

Nice job revealing the tale of volcanoes and airplanes. Thanks, THG

@zaldbathar4866 Жыл бұрын

They managed to replace 88 damaged aircraft in just 25 days!? That’s fucking insane wow. Definitely history that deserves to be remembered

@patrickmazza7055 Жыл бұрын

I am impressed by History Guy’s ability to pronounce nearly unpronounceable Icelandic volcano names. 😊

@Halli50 Жыл бұрын

At he time of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, I was a domestic airline pilot in Iceland, flying turboprops that are just as vulnerable as ordinary jetliners. The irony: We were mostly able to operate normally during all the trans-Atlantic cancellations, as close as 10 miles from the eruption, PROVIDED we could do so VFR (visually, no flying in clouds), and thus able to avoid any visible volcanic ash contamination. We never had any issues.

@Chris_at_Home Жыл бұрын

In the last few weeks airspace over the N Pacific and Alaska has been affected by two volcanos, one in the Aleutians and one in Russia.

@amadeusamwater Жыл бұрын

Shows how well trained those commercial flight crews are.

@LoserwinS1 Жыл бұрын

I was surprised to hear my hometown newspaper used as a source! Keep up the good work THG!

@DeereX748 Жыл бұрын

The 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo caused the USAF to abandon Clark AFB, and they never renewed their lease with the Philippine government. Another piece of history to be remembered was Clark AFB and its pre-history.

@thecreamyone3606 Жыл бұрын

My god I love this guy and his bowties! Wish he was my uncle

@SirenaSpades Жыл бұрын

That's incredible

@aveirofado Жыл бұрын

Thank you for lowering the volume level of your outro music track on these recent videos. It's a much smoother listening experience now.

@winglessviper Жыл бұрын

I was on my way to do my second tour in Korea. Got stuck in LA for a week because of the erupting AK volcano. Still don't know why we weren't put on a flt to HI then to Japan. That was Jan 1990.

@daviddickson7067 Жыл бұрын

Always interesting and entertaining.

@naturelvr123 Жыл бұрын

You're right. "History Worth Remembering". :)

@coreydarr8464 Жыл бұрын

Very fascinating!

@malcoexclamation Жыл бұрын

On 30 June 1982, I traveled on a holiday from Perth, Australia to Frankfurt, Germany, via Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This was my first journey outside the Southern Hemisphere. During the first few hours of the flight out of Perth, the captain of the flight mentioned that they were diverting around a volcanic eruption. At the time, I thought nothing much of it, just one of the interesting parts of flying. Many years later, I learned of the flight of BA 009 and the harrowing experience of its descent, without paying much attention to the date. At some point later, I put the two events together, and realized I was within a week of flying the same route. I guess back then, we played Russian Roulette with ash clouds. Scary stuff.

@raypelling6440 Жыл бұрын

"...all four engines have stopped....I trust you are not in too much distress." Oh no, not at all...right as rain...😳😳😳😳😳😳😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

@jjohnsonTX Жыл бұрын

Pucker factor somewhat elevated.

@shawnr771 Жыл бұрын

I would be ok without the announcement. Another shot of whiskey please.

@MarshOakDojoTimPruitt Жыл бұрын

thanks

@goodun2974 Жыл бұрын

I erupted with joy to be the first to stoke the algorithm by leaving a comment!

@ukar69 11 ай бұрын

I remember the Icelandic ash cloud. I lived in London at the time where aircraft turn onto final approach to Heathrow. It was eerie to have no aircraft at all. Another effect of volcanic ash is the particles are very abrasive. I believe the BA flight also had damage to the windscreen to the point it was difficult to see through.

@luciennerizk4549 Жыл бұрын

Great opener!

@ccubsfan94 Жыл бұрын

My favorite part is the procedure for encountering it. First is to get out of it or turn around. Get on approach to the nearest airport Then the best part Open the window and fly by looking out the quartering side window to land. That's if your plane has operable windows.

@kennethmc2601 Жыл бұрын

I was in Sigonella Sicily last year with a C-40, Mt Etna erupted the night before we were scheduled to fly out. We sat on our hotel roof in Catania for many hours just watching it light up in the distance wondering "are we still leaving tomorrow?" It erupts often, so we thought nothing of it until many of the locals joined us on the same rooftop to watch. Luckily the wind was on our side and we left.

@susanadams-wauro6716 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos!!

@clydecessna737 Жыл бұрын

When the crew went to oxygen the copilot's mask did not work; Capt. Moody had a choice: he could dive down to 12,000 feet where there was enough oxygen in the air or buy more time and altitude while his copilot fell unconscious. Moody correctly chose the former and the two repeatedly tried to relight at least one engine going again.