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The Wild Story of Captain Eric Moody

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0:00 he said by that point it was dead silent because everyone had accepted they were going to die oh and back then they didn't have TVs they didn't have TVs so they wanted to they already wanted they were like take me this sucks are you guys ready to hear the craziest story of one of the worst flights you could possibly be on oh I'm going to fly out tomorrow please tell me is it the story of 911 this is one of the worst flights that you could be on that actually you would survive oh so it's not the worst was it the Hawaii ains one with the lady hit the top of the oh that one was crazy that was pretty bad this

0:52 is a this is a pretty long story but it it piles on dude let's go how do you find these dude cuz I ████ love these another movie The Story of flight 09 oh man with Captain Moody as the pilot oh we don't want a moody pilot so just imagine imagine being on this plane imagine being on this commercial flight it's 1982 that's when they were still looking at different improvements for airplanes cuz they kept oh good let's yeah let's talk about that yeah got you put out your cigarette in the cigarette Ash train I was just going to ask these are the astray days yeah so the imagine you're on this flight and then the captain says over the radio this is your captain

1:43 speaking it appears all four engines have gone out what the just blunt all four engines are out on this plane so those airplanes got four engines yeah are they and all four had just gone out oh are they on Overland or oversea well half and half so over the sea is so scary yeah so here's the situation all four engines are out they don't know what they're going to do here's the data on what happens they're on a 747 it can glide 9 miles for every half mile that it drops okay so that means by the calculations that buys them 30 minutes before they crash okay at the height that they're in okay oh ████ before they freef fall but I bet it still feels like this though yeah it does but here's the tricky part

2:33 there's a way to restart the engines but um only from the outside no that's I Mission Impossible movie Now You it takes 3 minutes every time you try to restart an engine what do you mean 3 minutes so you got 10 tries you have 10 tries you have 10 tries to get the engine going again ████ before the plane crashes plus plus the engine can only be restarted if the plane is traveling between 290 mph and 310 mph this is like anything under anything under over dude this is speed in the air and and all the instrumentation devices don't work so the pilot can't tell how fast he's got to do a blind's got to ████ die he just has to crank yeah but since you only have you

3:25 have 3 minutes between every attempt so if you do an attempt when you're not going the right speed you've did that attempt oh cuz then you have to have the allowed time to then go back how do you how do you know you're going the 300 mil this yeah and go so what he has to do there's no air speed indicator so he doesn't he can't actually see the speed so what he has to do is lower the no he has to lower the nose and raise the nose in order to try to change the speed of the plane and guess yeah yeah yeah based off the feeling he's just guessing as a pilot so damn basically Captain Moody tries to like kind of finagle the plane to try to feel like it's at 290 to 310 before starting each time and also every time they attempt to restart the engines

4:16 massive fires shooting out of it do it because the engines are busted there's something wrong with it they don't know what happened a ████ pigeon fleu and I guarantee you all four all four of them it was a flock yeah a bunch of pigeons like so while he's trying to restart it every time they try to fire up the engines there's a risk that the plane catches fire oh my God because they're trying to restart four engines wow well why don't they do two at a time yeah why don't they do two at a time why aren they calm why aren they calm though they should chill out at the same time this is happening uh a lady farts on the plane a lady farts on the plane and they all died yeah the uh the pilot and the co-pilot are both desperately trying to do this right but the cabins losing pressure you normally reach you normally pressurize the cabin with air from

5:06 running engines so if the engines aren't running the oxygen mask has to come down you have to use that right mask come down the co-pilot's mask falls apart when he puts it on what so they literally look at each other and the dude is about to pass out because he can't breathe so what Captain Moody has to do now is go yeah yeah yeah yeah what he has to do now in order to save this guy from passing out cuz he needs him to start the engine he has to drop the plane an extra 6,000 ft to reach an elevation where they don't need the mask and now you now they're Los they're losing way more time just to keep this guy from passing God this is like texting while driving wait what I got to send this text out this is a funny video but ████ it was on Instagram how do I get it back into my chat W well I'm going on the 405

5:56 I got to like I relate dude so dude it's bad they end up dropping it another 6,000 ft so the guy is able to stay awake wow just to describe what's happening with the passengers by this point 10es left like and he the captain he described it like cuz he has a perfect detail about what happened he said by that point it was dead silent because everyone had accepted they were going to die oh and back then they didn't have TVs they didn't have TVs so they wanted to they just they already wanted they were like take me this sucks everyone takes the oxygen mask and they go like this already so they're going down and he said it's he said it's silent because with the engines not working there's

6:46 nothing to hear so it's just like gliding down with no sound did they at least hear [Laughter] so he ends up having to make this call right cuz if he doesn't think the engines are going to start again then he's thinking this is his last chance in order to make it to the ocean so that they can at least try a water landing yeah if they can get at least one engine working then there's a chance they could make it to Jakarta to the airport it will possibly land the plane off of one engine working maybe if there's one engine you know how a plane like this right if it's on one side doesn't it go like just one side pushes not if you're not if you adjust they spinning around

7:38 that's how they're going to approach the runway yeah no they can do it like this no you just got to fly it down like this some Indonesian Cowboy is going to gra get Vin Diesel out here yeah so he decides all right I'm going to go for Jakarta and just hope one engine works right as they're approaching Jakarta he sees because they can't they can't use any other navigation equipment to see like where they are through the um the glass the glass for some reason has completely become opaque of like you can barely see through it ████ so he can't go no they can't they and they still don't know why that happened and why the engines went out so they're cabin pressure ████ yeah they're going to Jakarta and based on that distance they're like all right if one engine works we'll get there but then he sees that there's a mountain range there and there's no chance they're going to they're going to clear that anyway one

8:28 engine or not so they're going and they're just reaching it oh ████ why they got so many mountains yeah I think it's just the way they're approaching it Tony Mountain's not enough engines so then he's at he's at 12,000 ft and he and he knows okay at 12,000 ft this is my last chance to either Veer towards the ocean and just crash in the water and hope for the best um try to turn the engine on one more time and then right as he makes that decision one engine starts working wo by itself by itself but he still can't get over the mountain though he's spinning around right now dude he's going 360 but they're like uh one engine's not going to cut that ████ to get over that mountain and then 90 seconds later all three other engines start working dude it's like a ████ old Nintendo you just got to go

9:19 just got to blow it and then it went Dam and then as they get closer to the Jakarta they actually like start going they get closer to Jakarta airport Jakarta Airport radios to them saying that they're having a malfunction and they can't tell him where to land wow they can't they they can't uh for some reason they're not able to read his you know the yeah they read your position and they tell you exactly what to do they have all the plan line up plane is cursed so they tell him you're just going to have to look and find the lights and just land it man do it blind you just going to have to anymore okay like was anybody like on the tarmac or like who cares they just got to take a chance yeah so he's going down and basically they can't help him and he can't there's no instrumentation to tell him either so

10:09 he has to do it blind he has to do it literally like and he can't see from the totally manual so he goes as he's going down luckily it's at night and he can see the lights and he tries his best to just match the ████ plane to the lights at night too that's so crazy and then barely able to see out of the cockpit too because the glasses like for some reason got like super fogged up and then they land the plane perfectly wow perfectly that's crazy so then they ended up figuring out what the ████ happened to the plane like why did this even occur turns out and this is the first time this has even happened that a volcano spewed volcanic ash right under where they were flying and it clogged up the engines and the ash ████ up the glass from the plane they were fre at 500 mph

11:00 so that ████ that up and then because of that incident so it took that long for it like the ash to clear up from the engines or something clear up yeah so oh so they're just flying and then it was like getting out of the engines so what happened is like it LO it looked to them like it's a storm and they' never seen this but like you know sometimes when volcanic ash goes up it looks like a thunderstorm yeah it just looks like a cloud yeah it just looks like a cloud it's called bog so because of that they actually started the volcanic ash advisory Center which is something that exists today it's a meteorologic uh Center that will tell Aviation data get away the clouds are wow they didn't have that prior to this happening safety ████ insane dude Jes so the dude ended up like he ended up like flying clear until like uh he retire he's Maverick dude he's better he get an award for that he got tons of rewards he started he started this thing called The

11:51 gallang gung gliding club and what it is it's it's just an organization all of the survivors of the plane like in touch that's W that's cool like some of them have gotten married and like it's like all these like cool stories with all the people there and uh yeah that's how they made it that should be a thing though like just training more manual simulations just in case of all your instrumentation fails you already know what to look for it's like okay cool you know I mean I guess he knew how ████ wild is that ████ dude we have someone from the gingan club here oh wow survivors Survivor is here say hi subie you just got off the plane oh sorry sorry I know did it's okay we know what you just went through

12:43 what do you have to say for yourself man get in you got we know what you just went through his car broke you just you just flew through you just where my car was stolen that's the seat it's the stolen car seat that's like that's the car problem yeah that's the car problem seat so just this video what do you think of the galling and gliding Club galling what glub just what do you think you think it's great yeah what what do you think it does no idea take a guess gallon and Club just yeah just guess what it does gliding Club oh gliding yep you glide on the gliders yep yeah what else and it's a club m one one more thing it flies one more thing I don't know I don't know what is going

13:33 on yeah isn't that the craziest flight to be on to survive that's better than the dead zel movie I'm down to survive have that experience and survive I don't know if I want to have that experience that's ████ scar as the dude the dude is really cool too the captain guy they they interview him about it and he just makes jokes about it all the time that's the best and he they were like what do you think about uh flying like back at the 80s versus now cuz he like he was a pilot for the rest of his life and he was like he said something stupid he's like I learned how to fly in the 60s and he goes back then um flying was dangerous and sex was safe PS are always so cool that's a pretty sick ass CL I wonder if he was one of those prior Pilots you know like a pilot in the military or something cuz he had like plan a plan B C like cuz that's where most of the pilots at that time were from right they're like

14:24 veterans yeah sound like had so much experience he's like I I think he is problem Sol I think he is a veteran actually he sounds like it yeah what a sick ass dude right insane man what a cool guy shout out to this guy Captain Moody [Music]

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