Posted on 06/25/2024 1:02:03 PM PDT by libh8er
....50 minutes into the flight, the B737 MAX experienced a sudden uncontrolled decompression. According to FL360aero, the message “pressure s ystem (pressure control function of the aircraft) abnormality” was displayed while flying over Jeju Island.
As per standard procedure during a sudden loss of cabin pressurization, the flight crew made an emergency descent. According to data from the flight tracking website Flightradar24, the aircraft dropped about 26,900 feet in around 15 minutes. The aircraft, carrying 125 passengers, was able to return to ICN Airport at approximately 19:40 local time.
One of the passengers onboard the flight captured footage inside the cabin, showing that the oxygen masks had all dropped from overhead.
The passenger said she thought it would be her “last day on earth”.
South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation said 15 passengers reported that they had suffered from hyperventilation or pain in their eardrums, while 13 were hospitalized after landing.
(Excerpt) Read more at aerotime.aero ...
That must be one of the hyperventilating passengers. Or maybe she's just hyperbolic all the time.
Good point. With the end of the 717 their really wasn’t any modern replacement for that narrower 2 + 3 config for shorter routes.
I’ve seen someone freak out when we hit some turbulence mid-flight and they had to pause the in-flight snack service.
I don’t know what current ATC guidelines are for commercial airliners with passengers but absent an emergency, I seem to recall a “normal” descent, either enroute or on approach, would have been approx 500 ft/min. This one, at 1,700 ft/min +/-, should not be considered fear inducing or in any way beyond the aircraft’s capabilities.
There is more than one docking module.
Yeah, elevators in the Taipei 101 building go almost 38 mph.
Less than 1,800 ft/min . . . I don’t think that’s too remarkable, even for an airliner. I certainly wouldn’t call it “rapid.”
It's also 30 ft/sec, which is about the initial free fall velocity. Continuously over 15 mins would be quite an experience (think falling down a four story building every second for 15 minutes). Wheeee....!!!
Uh...bad reporting!
Well, I am also a retired Boeing engineer and do not think twice about flying commercial. It is astonishingly safe.
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Captain Sum Ting Wong was concerned.
It’s a new KAL passenger appreciation promotion called “Happy Fun Time”.
C’mon, man. They were in a slow nose dive.
Those airplanes are older than Taylor Swift.
“It is astonishingly safe.”
I would reword that.
It has been astonishingly safe.
**Time to find out which airline does NOT use Boeing planes.**
**GA. We use Cessna’s (like 210’s)**
If folks are only going a few hundred miles, mostly over land, single engine, chartering a 6 seater (C210), or a 10-14 seater (C208), is fine. But Seoul to Taipai is almost 1k miles, mostly over water.
(Got a few hours in 210s, fun airplane.)
So passengers missed their opportunity to moonwalk down the aisles?
Agreed, for the most part.
However, will say that a trip from the northeast to floriduh is roughly the same elapsed time door to door, when considering extra travel time to a large airport, arriving 90 minutes prior to boarding, TSA, 20 minutes gate/taxi, and repeating some of that on the other end.
Some downsides of GA - no car on the other end, with perhaps no rentals at the smallest airports, have to pay much more attention to weather, and many others.
Have flown cross country, MA to FL to CA.
It's not the years, it's the mileage. She hasn't been ridden nearly that far, as far as we know.
Sudden descent without sudden stop. Say your prayers of thanksgiving.
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