All Four Engines Have Failed: The True and Triumphant Story of Flight BA 009 and the 'Jakarta Incident'

In 1982 British airways Flight BA 009, an American-built Boein 747 in the command of Captain Eric Moody, took off on the Kuala Lumpur-Perth sector of its London to Auckland flight. Over Java the night was suddenly illuminsyrf by St. Elmo's fire, smoke filled the cabins and flames surrounded the turbulence-battered aircraft. One by one, for no reason the crew could discover, the engines surged and failed.

Betty Tootell, one of the passengers, has written a remarkable and suspensful account of what happened and how people reacted; a story which movingly demonstrates the heroism of ordinary people. The reader is left feeling that those on board were awarded precious thins: an understanding of the true meaning of humanity, and the gift of life.