Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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telly we share what we've been watching

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Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Darren Graham.

Today I'm taking you back to 1982 when a British Airways jumbo jet became the first

plane ever known to have flown through a volcanic ash cloud and yet landed safely

even after it had lost power to all its four engines at 37,000 feet.

We didn't know what had happened, but that was what was worrying.

We wanted to know what had happened. This is retired Captain Eric Moody.

He was the pilot of B.A. Flight 9 from Kuala Lumpur to Perth, Australia, who found himself trying to fly a plane with no power, no communication,

and no idea what was going on.

The Indian Ocean is down there, and I thought, well, that's where we're going to end up.

The Boeing 747 took off at six in the evening on June the 24th

1982 it had 248 passengers on board and 15 crew.

At first, everything seemed fine.

And after we've been going about a couple of hours, I needed to go to the toilet, so I looked on the radar and there was no sign of

any bad weather or anything.

It was while Captain Moody was away from the controls that some strange things started happening.

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