The anniversary of the incident came up in the last week and some may remember it. A British Airways 747 flow through volcanic ash on a flight from NZ to Singapore while passing over Indonesia at night. The presence of ash in the atmosphere had not been notified.
All four engines stopped and the 747 descended at a glide while those in the cockpit worked on getting the engines started and at quite a low altitude they were successful.
The cockpit windows had the appearance of having been sandblasted and there was a tiny slit in one corner that the captain peered through to land the plane on a small airfield, the engines were wrapped off.
That is why I want a guy up the front who has some skin in the game.
The Australian airline Quantas has the best safety record of any airline including any of the US airlines.
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