In April 1982, British Airways Flight 009 en route to Auckland from London flew into a cloud of dust and ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, on the Indonesian island of Java ...

Eric Moody, who has died aged 82, successfully extricated a British Airways Boeing 747 from the jaws of disaster in 1982. The outstanding performance of Moody and his crew – whose “airmanship ...