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SCARY moment at work last night
Ok, so here we are cruising at 37,000ft and out of nowhere the Cabin pressurization starts to raise rapidly, goes from standard 8,000ft to rapidly climbing past 9,000 on its way to a "rapid decompression" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_decompression
we get the "CABIN" "CABIN" aural warning, so we DON our oxygen masks, declare an emergency and I push the nose forward, thrust back to idle, open the speed brakes and go into a DIVE bomb at like 6,000 feet per minute descent all the way down to 10,000ft, into some pretty nasty thunderstorms over PA. Anyway talk about adrenaline rush.......... The masks in the back never came down, they come down automatically at 14,000 ft CABIN pressure altitude but we were able to get it down sooner :) Anyway make sure when you guys fly you pay attention to how those masks work, it WILL save your life, just remember time of useful consciousness at 37,000 ft is literally a few seconds. Turns out one of outflow valve seals went bad.......... |
sounds like you handled it well. Ill only fly JoeAir!
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wow thats scary, what type of plane was this?
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Glad to hear all the training actually comes out and works, no thought process was needed...
good job man. do you ever fly the 737s? or just the express jets? |
just for "Expressjet", aka Continental Express if it was up to me, Id be flying for FedEx or UPS, they make $$$$$$$$$$$
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lol I hate flying
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WOW! JoeyBalls nice job escaping disaster!! I remember several years ago rapid redepressurisation is what took the life of golfer Payne Stewart, his flight crew and a few friends in his Gulfstream.
They had rapid depressuring and everyone lost consciousness/died and the plane kept going because it was on auto....it crashed later after it ran out of fuel. The USAF had 2 F-16s with shoot down orders tail it if it was going to crash in an urban/suburban area. |
Nice heads up flying :thumbup:
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