Guy Bartlett - The Aeroplane Man
"Ladies and Gentlemen,
All 4 Engines Have Failed..."
At 37,000 feet, one after another - and for no reason the crew could discover
- all 4 engines on a British Airways 747 failed.
With a crippled aircraft, the captain, Eric Moody, controlled the powerless jumbo jet,
the co-pilot, Roger Greaves, sent out mayday calls
and the flight engineer tried repeatedly to re-start the engines.
What happened next is the stuff of fiction, except this time, it was for real…
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