Hi All,

 

737-800 in emergency descent

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-17631534

 

Regards,

 

Ceri

Seems like the crew did their job and got everyone on the ground.

 

Some of the quotes there sounded a bit fear mongering to me (but that's just me). But I thought that the headline should have been "Three Examined in Hospital After Ryanair Nose Dive".

In cases of rapid decompression there will always be some passenger more adversely affected.

In the case of the VC10 oxygen is rated for 4hrs and 10 minutes:

10 minutes at 80psi for an emergency

If the cabin altitude exceeds 17,000ft oxygen is supplied at 80psi

If the cabin altitude exceeds 14,000ft oxygen is supplied at 40psi

All passengers are required to wear oxygen masks above CA of 15,000ft

Between 10-15,000ft 15% of the passengers are required to be supplied. Of these 2 passengers areconsidered to be in need

of a higher oxygen flow.

The last thing on the crew's mind is a PA announcement so that's why some pax get frightened.

The attached chart is always consulted before flight so that the crew know in advance how much oxygen is available before they must land.

vololiberista

 

yea since when do captains yell mayday over the pa systems, and of cause you would see the white of the eyes if the person was sitting next to to you.

yea since when do captains yell mayday over the pa systems, and of cause you would see the white of the eyes if the person was sitting next to to you.

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"Mayday Mayday Mayday" Good evening Ladies and Gentleman, Your life jacket is under your seat, and please pay for any toilet tissue you may have used, and on behalf of all the crew, thank you for flying Ryanair.

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"Mayday Mayday Mayday" Good evening Ladies and Gentleman, Your life jacket is under your seat, and please pay for any toilet tissue you may have used, and on behalf of all the crew, thank you for flying Ryanair.

Remember on Ryanair you have to pay to go to the toilet!! In this sittuation though I'm sure ryan air would ask you to clean up your own mess!! Or is that rumour true "Sick Bags Available - only 5 Euros each!"

vololiberista

Remember on Ryanair you have to pay to go to the toilet!! In this sittuation though I'm sure ryan air would ask you to clean up your own mess!! Or is that rumour true "Sick Bags Available - only 5 Euros each!"

vololiberista

My god, you have to pay to use the throne ? :LMAO: :LMAO:

Seems like the crew did their job and got everyone on the ground.

 

Some of the quotes there sounded a bit fear mongering to me (but that's just me). But I thought that the headline should have been "Three Examined in Hospital After Ryanair Nose Dive".

 

Sounds like a typical news story to me. If people weren't 'terrified for their life' as the 'plane plunged towards the earth' it's not a proper story apparently, regardless of what actually happened.

Sounds like a typical news story to me. If people weren't 'terrified for their life' as the 'plane plunged towards the earth' it's not a proper story apparently, regardless of what actually happened.

 

Yup, journos always use that emotive rubbish to jazz up stories. Aeroplanes in news stories invariably become the 'terror plunge jet' or the 'doomed jetliner' etc. They never carry out an expedited descent as part of a well-practiced standard procedure, instead they 'dive', 'plunge', 'plummet' or 'fall'. The passengers are all 'terrified' and there will always be one quoted, who 'thought my number was up', all babies and children on board always cry. 'Fleets of ambulances' always 'race to the scene' too. If only there was a singing nun on board and George Kennedy in the cockpit, it would be the perfect disaster movie.

 

Al

uh boy michaels going to be SO angry ;)

I remember once in the NGX I forgot to set the PACKs, that was so dumb of me :P

It's simple, the captain said "emergency descent" three times to allert the cabin crew as it needs to be done and of course with all the stress the passenger associated it to "mayday" as he couldn't understand..No captain in the world would scream mayday over the pa system.

 

Oh and it's free to use the toilet in Ryanair, and so are the sick bags. That thing about paying to use the toilet was just another smart way of getting free publicity for Ryanair over the media hype. Those guys are smarter than they look.

I think that publicity should be working in the opposite direction. But go with what works I guess...

It could be bad publicity,but usually when they say something stupid as paying to use the toilet, at the same time they also make a sell of a million tickets for one euro, and usually both things go on the news at the same time as they do both announcements on the same day..So you obviously want to read about the toilet thing as it is something bizarre, and in the related news you end up seeing the article about the one euro ticket..It's a surprisingly smart way of getting free publicity, just like they did when they said they were trying to operate the aircraft using only one pilot (we all know this would never happen, and so do they...)