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"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain...
engine No. 4 failed because of a flameout. The co-pilot and flight engineer went into the immediate procedure of shutting the engine down, cutting the fuel supply and, just in case, activating a fire-extinguishing system. In the meantime the commander handled the controls, trying to cope with uneven thrust.The passengers also noticed long yellow glowing streaks emanating from the remaining engines. Less than a minute after shutting down engine No.4, there was a blowout in engine No.2, which also stopped.
Before the crew could initiate the process of cutting down the engine, there was a blowout in the remaining engines, No.1 and No.3, and the windshield went opaque. The flight engineer exclaimed: "I can"t believe it - all the engines have stopped." It was at that moment that Eric Moody made the statement quoted at the beginning of the article - with a characteristically British sense of humor.
The heavy airliner headed back to Jakarta, hoping to make an
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