>Volcano erupts in Indonesia
>Locals don’t notice because they have shit weather radar
>747 flies through the dust cloud
>All 4 engines get filled with volcanic ash and burn out
>“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.”
>Spend 12 minutes gliding, dropping 23,500 feet in the process
>The pilots are preparing to be the first 747 ever to attempt a water landing
>Finally one of the engines restarts
>But ILS is offline
>Windscreen is completely opaque due to ash, no way to clean it
>Manage to land running entirely on instruments
>Fatalities: 0
>Injuries: 0
Survivors: 263

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      1610 months ago

      Islandmountainglacier. Got it. Why didn’t they say that in the first place?

      • @[email protected]
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        2310 months ago

        On an island full of mountain glaciers, it does make you wonder how they came up with that name.

        • @SlopppyEngineer
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          1010 months ago

          The others have names like “rock flake”, “old hag”, “cloak”, “broad shoulders”, "Erik’s “glacier” and “baldric’s bump” from what I can quickly find. It seems they gave up with the Islandmountainglacier.

        • @z00s
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          310 months ago

          The rest of them have names like “NoNotThatIslandMountainGlacierTheOtherOne”

    • @Taalnazi
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      24 months ago

      Or a cognate, Eyfallicle; ey as in island, fall as in a valley(?), icle from icicle.

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