Posted on 01/05/2022 2:20:00 AM PST by blueplum
I was on a flight from Chicago to Spokane back in the late 80’s that lost cabin pressure at 33m’. We were right around the ND/MT border. It was a Boeing 737 being flown by United.
The pilot took us in an emergency decent down to about 10m’ and leveled out. The issue was the oxygen masks did NOT deploy in the main cabin. So, IF we had stayed at 33m’, eventually we would have run out of air. People were crying.
The captain landed the plane in Billings, MT.
The whole Billings fire department was on the runway when we landed. We taxied up to the terminal and parked. We gave the captain a standing ovation.
I and about 6 others were able to get flights out the same night. Mine went through Denver. Then on to Spokane. I got there about 6 hours late. The other 100 plus people spent the night in Billings. They flew another jet in the next morning. It made the news.
Understood...
Being a trusty to modern chemistry back in the 70s I missed a lot of input data. But, since then I continued my education enrolled in the school of hard knocks!! So, o can take your response and Andy Jackson’s explanation of the theory “ parabolic arc” and see this is causing a slight centrifugal force to help reach zero G...
Thks for the info!!
This is what pilots are paid for. Anyone can fly a plane when things are working as they should. They spend hours training for when these kinds of things happen.
Lol...
Indeed...
There is a video floating around where a female pilot lands a 757 with 30+ knot cross winds. Seeing her lining up with the approach and landing about 40 degrees to Port was/is one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen
O think this is it...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPn3MBNt7Rc
Excellent observation!!
If you go to youtube and watch wild and rough landing videos, Ryanair has more then their fair share represented.
I did that with a 25 knot crosswind at Los Banos on my first solo cross country. It took me two tries in a 152.
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Smoking in the toilet?
-5,000 fpm is a “plunge”? That’s a rapid descent, not a “plunge.” That’s 60 miles per hour. Is a trip at freeway speeds horizontal “plunging”?
Of course, if I were on board, I might disagree with myself. Hopefully the captain told the passengers “Don’t worry, I’ve got this” in a calm, professional voice.
In 1996 I was flying with my daughter From Seattle to Orlando when a passenger had a medical emergency. The pilot must have been a former Naval Piot because he descended into Atlanta like he was landing on a carrier deck, touched down and hit the brakes with our faces pinned in the seatback in front of us.
Only other flight I had like that was flying to Alaska and landing in Ketchikan and Sitka because the only thing in front of you is the ocean if you run off the end of the runway
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