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Flying through a volcano

01/09/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Flying through a volcano

How a British Airways jumbo jet flew through a volcanic ash cloud and survived

All four engines failed on a British Airways passenger plane one night in 1982 as it flew through a cloud of ash above an erupting volcano.

When a British Airways flight carrying 248 passengers took off one evening in 1982  heading from Kuala Lampur to Australia, everything seemed fine. But two hours later all of the jumbo jet’s engines shut down and no one knew why. The plane had flown into the ash cloud of the erupting volcano, Mount Galunggung, without realising it. Darin Graham speaks to retired Captain Eric Moody, who flew the plane that night.

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