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British Airways Flight 009, sometimes referred to by its callsign Speedbird 9 or as the Jakarta incident, [1] was a scheduled British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Auckland, with stops in Bombay, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Melbourne. On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by City of Edinburgh, a Boeing 747-236B registered as G-BDXH.
In a nearly identical incident in 1989, a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Anchorage, Alaska, flew into the plume of the erupting Mount Redoubt, causing all four engines to fail due to compressor stall. Once the flight cleared the ash cloud it was able to restart each engine and then made a safe landing at Anchorage, though, like the BA flight ...
British Airways Flight 009, a Boeing 747 that lost all of the engine controls due to the blockage by volcanic ash in 1982. El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747-258F that lost 2 of 4 engines on approach, loss of control, and crashed into Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in Bijlmermeer, killing all 4 people. Arrow Air Flight 1285R.
This category lists multi-engine passenger airline accidents involving loss of all engines in flight and subsequent gliding flight. Causes of these rare situations have included fuel exhaustion or starvation , multiple bird strikes , volcanic ash , extreme weather and hijacking .
British Airways Flight 009: Boeing 747-200: Jakarta, Indonesia: Volcanic ash ingestion from Mount Galunggung: En route at FL370, all engines failed. After 10 minutes of gliding, four engines restarted, but one failed again and was shut down. Flight landed safely in Jakarta. 0: 263 5 May 1983 Eastern Air Lines Flight 855: Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
A passenger on a British Airways flight to Malaga, which turned back to London City airport after just seven minutes, has told of “a terrible smell of burning” in the cabin – and of the ...
2005 (31 December): Of 24 British Airways flights that I took in that year, only three were on time – making 87.5 per cent late from a very limited sample. Punctuality has since improved. In ...
The British Airways customer originally posted the complaint about their December flight to the public Facebook page, “British Airways Complaints Advice,” which was then reposted by a separate ...