What a ridiculous headline...
If the plane doesn’t descend quickly with a pressurization problem, everyone will die...
The pilots were talking about getting down to a safe altitude.
They want to remote control our cars. Maybe some pimple faced kid took control of the plane for a test drive for the feds?
I’m happy that all ended well for these passengers.
Still—I don’t ever plan to fly again unless an emergency should come up with my daughter and her family presently living in Canada.
If I can’t drive there, I don’t go there is the way I look at it. I visited all the places I have wanted to visit, both here and abroad.
OK here's a question. If I'm on a plane going down do I really want my loved ones on the line listening as I crash?
I had a similar experience on an Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Seattle, immediately after takeoff and at about my guess around 10k level my ears started popping suddenly and their was a bitter sharp smell in the cabin, my guess is the cabin presurization valves went off kilter or vented suddenly, plane did a deep descent and you could actually feel the pressure building up. Landed and changed planes.
“we’re going down.” It is very hard to give those words any other meaning than a crash is imminent and we’re about to die. From the circumstances described - and, given the state of journalism, to be taken with a huge grain of salt - it was a very poor choice of words to say for an emergency descent.