Scary moment on a flight today

Bes

Bes

Bes

Soldato
Joined
18 Oct 2002
Posts
7,318
Location
Melbourne
As some people here might know, I do a lot of travelling in my job, and am away practically all the time.

This past week, I have been working in Brussels, and got the Brussels Airlines flight from Brussels- Bristol.

We took of on time and as normal, reached cruising, got a snack, etc, then I settled down to read and listen to my walkman for 30 mins before landing.

About five minutes later, we started descending, and I noticed the seatbelt sign was on, I could also feel my ears popping. It seemed a bit early to land, so I switched my walkman off to try and gather what was going on.

Next thing I know, all the oxygen masks drop from the ceiling, and the plane starts decending faster- we are told to put them on immediately and stay sitting down- so I comply, as I can feel the air getting very thin (i.e. less oxygen). Just for a few minutes- not knowing what the hell is happenning, and wondering why the cabin is suddenly starting to depressurise is quite a scary thing, I can tell you, and I started thinking all kinds of things!

Anyway, eventually we reached a low altitude (where the air outside the cabin is breathable), and we cruised the remainder of our journey there, before landing safely....

twas a scary few minutes anyway and made an otherwise very boring hour slightly interesting!

Off to Belfast on Monday with EasyJet- lets hope there are no problems there!

Quite a lame story in the end, but hey I'm bored :p Anyone else been in any aircraft- incidents?
 
Must have been pretty unnerving. Did you find out what the problem was - failure of the cabin pressurisation system?
 
Nope they never told us, but I notice the return flight to Brussels is showing as cancelled on the airport online departure board!!
 
At least it wasn't an explosive decompression! What happened is pretty much standard procedure. Chances are, if you continued on to destination for quite some time, the cabin didn't depressurise completely.

Anyway, it's good to see this wee mishap hasn't put you off flying. Good luck on Monday, you'll need it ;)


Class 04 said:
Worrying! I often wonder how many things happen that we don't know about...
Click to expand...
You'd be surprised ;)
 
Scuzi said:
Good luck on Monday, you'll need it ;)
Click to expand...

Oh god, drunk Scuzi is in control of the planes again!

:p

Never been on a plane before, sounds like a bit of a brown trouser moment though, glad it was all ok, but a shame they didn't give any information about what had happened.

InvG
 
Funnily enough, yes going into Belfast with Easyjet :P

Went to land and zoomed off before touching, the pilot couldnt get the undercarriage down, we flew around the lake a few times and he still couldnt get it, so we diverted to Liverpool, landed okay, flew back to Belfast, usually a half hour flight took me 4 hours from Glasgow.

Was scary at first then it was sort of, "well if its going to happen, its going to happen" and a calm transended.
 
neocon said:
is that a prop?
Click to expand...

Nah, it's a 4 engined (regarded by some as 5 APU'd ;)) jet.

Here's a pic -

rj85.jpg
 
I am surprised they didn't offer any explanation, when you got off the plane did they just act normally?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom