Originally Posted by
340drvr
Well done, glad it worked out Primary importance to not panic, hard to do if/when things really go bad.
Classic example is the Speedbird 9 story, 747 flameout after flying through volcanic ash, the crew just kept running thru proper procedure, landed safely
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
(Hopefully, after repairing faulty circuits in that 421, they installed an independent gyro of some kind, air-driven, or stand-alone battery powered AI).
It did have air driven gyros on the copilots side, however both did the AI and DI did not work so they had been removed for overhaul. Like I said the decision to take off that day was not a good one.