KLM Flight 867 [SEP] point in time
KLM Flight 867
On 15 December 1989, KLM Flight 867, en route from Amsterdam to Narita International Airport Tokyo, was forced to make an emergency landing at Anchorage International Airport Alaska when all four engines failed. The Boeing 747-400 combi, less than six months old at the time, flew through a thick cloud of volcanic ash from Mount Redoubt, which had erupted the day before.
Engine failure.
All four engines failed, leaving only critical systems on backup electrical power. One report assigns the engine
Accidents and incidents.
In 1982, British Airways Flight 9 flew through an ash cloud, lost power from all four engines, and descended from to only before the flight crew managed to restart the engines. A similar incident occurred in 1989 to KLM Flight 867.
Another incident occurred in 2018 in Hawaii to American Airlines Flight 418.