G-BDXH, the aircraft involved in the incident, in January 1982
Accident
Date
24 June 1982 (1982-06-24)
Summary
Quadruple engine flameout due to blockage by volcanic ash
Site
Near Mount Galunggung, West Java, Indonesia 7°15′24″S108°04′37″E / 7.25667°S 108.07694°E / -7.25667; 108.07694
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 747-236B
Aircraft name
City of Edinburgh
Operator
British Airways
IATA flight No.
BA009
ICAO flight No.
BAW009
Call sign
SPEEDBIRD 9
Registration
G-BDXH
Flight origin
Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom
1st stopover
Sahar Airport, Bombay, India
2nd stopover
Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3rd stopover
Perth Airport, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Last stopover
Melbourne Airport, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Destination
Auckland Airport, Auckland, New Zealand
Occupants
263
Passengers
248
Crew
15
Fatalities
0
Injuries
0
Survivors
263
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 the City of Edinburgh, a Boeing 747-236B registered as G-BDXH. The aircraft flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung around 110 miles (180 km) south-east of Jakarta, Indonesia, resulting in the failure of all four engines. Partly because the event occurred at night, obscuring the cloud, the reason for the failure was not immediately apparent to the crew or air traffic control. The aircraft was diverted to Jakarta in the hope that enough engines could be restarted to allow it to land there. The aircraft glided out of the ash cloud, and all engines were restarted (although one started vibrating and the crew had to shut it down soon after), allowing the aircraft to land safely at the Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta.
The crew members of the accident segment had boarded the aircraft in Kuala Lumpur, while many of the passengers had been aboard since the flight began in London.[2]
^Faith, Nicholas (1998). Black Box. p. 156.
^Episode "Falling from the Sky" from the TV series Mayday (Air Emergency, Air Crash Investigation) [documentary TV series].
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