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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.
— Captain Moody of British Airways Flight 009, as the plane he is piloting glides without power through a cloud of volcanic ash. As Wikipedia says, a “masterpiece of understatement.” And a tickle at the deep-seated fear I feel whenever I fly.
