To go further, pretty certain that jets have wipers. If it was just ash, they could have cleaned it to get some visibility.

I literally cannot tell the difference.

Source: am manager, and sometimes my underlings don't toil hard enough in the PowerPoint mines.

Moody made an announcement to the passengers that has been described as "a masterpiece of understatement"

I didn't believe that was an actual quote but here we are.

On the descent without visibility....

Moody described it as "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse."

Oh my word. HAHAHA!

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If I had a nickel for every time a 747 lost engines going through volcanic ash and recovered with no fatalities, I would have two nickels.

That was shortly after their economy crashed. I remember people saying that the last wish of Iceland's economy was to have its ashes spread across Europe.

Hey, it is easy to spell how Icelanders pronounce it in my native language:

Eyyafyatlayakötül

Catch a throatful from the fire vocal With ash and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull

I can recommend the YouTube channel Mentour Pilot who breaks down flight accidents and incidents, how they happened, what went wrong and why and what lessons were learned from them.

There's also: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/

That show is now called Air Crash Investigation and it still airs! Its my favourite, I highly recommend catching up the recent seasons

Seriously fantastic book and it's a quick read. Definitely recommended.

It's written by a surgeon who was involved in helping promote the use of checklists in healthcare. A lot of the book is about looking at their use in other places like aviation and construction and realizing why they work and how they can help in other places. The book spends a lot of time on the idea that some fields have become so complex with so many pieces that it's impossible for any one person to be able to track it all in their head on the fly and the effect that has in "can't afford failure" industries.

A book about checklists sounds like it'd be dreadfully dry and boring but the author is a solid writer and the book is full of a ton of really interesting vignettes -- I find people tend to fly through it. I first read it probably 10 years ago and it's one of those books that has really stuck with me since.

Checklists are great and they work.

Could have been a very different outcome if not for the quick thinking of the cabin crew brewing up more tea for the pilots.

Uhhh ladies and gentlemen... drinks are free.

Your alternative would be being dead. I’d say they did pretty darn well. Any landing you can walk away from was a good landing after all.