I thought this incident happened over Alaska not Indonesia. I remember a story about a 747 encountering volcanic ash over Alaska causing all 4 engines to shut down. As the ash cooled it came off the fan blades and the pilots were able to restart then engines. Perhaps it was KLM. Mark UPSplane@aol.com wrote: > That's pretty funny Mike.... not to much distress. > I hope drinks were on the house (plane) the rest of the way after that small > distress! > > In a message dated 4/5/2002 8:23:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, > Jean-Michel_Gammon@albint.com writes: > > > With typical droll British understatement the captain announced over the > > PA: "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". > > > > Carlos Borda > Carlos' Airliner Images! > http://members.aol.com/upsplane/homepage.html > http://airliners.net/search/photo.search?emailsearch=upsplane@aol.com > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>