【英语时差8,16】火山灰与飞机-下（在线收听）

 The obvious risk of this happening to crowded passenger planes in British airspace was enough for the UK's Civil Aviation Authority to enforce a total ban on flights – a move which was mirrored by other northern European countries. The dangers of flying through volcanic ash were demonstrated in 1982 when a British Airways flight from Malaysia to Australia lost power in all four engines after flying into a cloud of dust spewed out by an eruption of Mount Galunggung in Indonesia. After 15 minutes of gliding in a controlled descent from 37,000 feet to 12,000 feet, the pilot, Captain John Moody, managed to restart the engines once enough of the molten ash in the engines solidified and broke off. The plane went on to land safely in Perth. Speaking to the BBC last week, Captain Moody demonstrated the typically phlegmatic attitude of his profession. "It was, yeah, a little bit frightening," he said.