AOPA video warns of hypoxia dangers after Citation V crash
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4159519/posts
tracking data and the fighter jet pilots’ observations, it is “likely that the pilot of the accident airplane became incapacitated during the climb to cruise altitude.”...
Well, who wouldn’t?
Do they say why the jet lost pressure?
Do these planes have oxygen masks?
Payne Stewart Syndrome.
In our Citation, one flight deck crew is always wearing a mask. We alternate every ten minutes.
Another way in which flying is different from driving. Can’t stop by the side of the sky if your plane develops an engine problem or stalls. Can’t breathe on a plane? Can’t exactly open a window.
With modern technology, you would think they could make the automatic pilot detect the lack of oxygen and descend to 5000 feet or so.
Flying is an unnatural an inherently dangerous act. Simply traveling at 500 mph is deadly dangerous, too, whether you’re flying or not.
As Wilbur Wright said, “If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds.” If you expect flying ever to be completely safe, you’re in for a very long wait.
If it frightens you, maybe you should follow John Madden’s example and take the bus everywhere. And pray the driver doesn’t have a stroke on the way. Or the bus doesn’t stall on a railroad crossing. Or their isn’t a Palestinian Splodybot in the back seat with a pound of Semtex wrapped in 10d finishing nails.
Reminds me of a Louisiana airplane on a short hop flew East over the Southern US and crashed in the Atlantic back around 1980 or so.
If Charles Berlitz was still alive he could claim this one was, like he said about the Louisiana aircraft, “Mysteriously being pulled toward THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE!”