"He said, we're going down. And everyone is looking around like, is this a joke? Is he serious? And then you felt the nosedive," passenger Shelley Wills said.Heather Waliga WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham, NC
Wills told ABC11 the Tuesday night flight from Tampa took a nosedive thousands of feet in the air while they were about 100 miles away from RDU.
Wills is a nurse and tried helping the first-time flier seated next to her who was clutching her chest.
"I'm thinking oh my god, she's going to scare herself into a heart attack," Wills said.
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Thank God, and I mean THANK GOD, that we live in a world with people like passenger Shelley Wills so we can all know what it's like to be on a nosediving airliner, and thank God, too, that we live in a world with people like Heather Waliga with her top-notch news reporting skills and her nice smile.
The bad news is they still ended up in Raleigh.
So the plane did not plummet, it performed a rapid but controlled decent to an altitude where cabin pressure would not be an issue.
I'd be curious as to the exact wording of the pilot's statement.
whew
So the real story is poor communication, and maybe a questionable pressure sensor. My instructor told me to fly the plane first and then communicate, so part of me would understand. The pilot does need to give some warning to the Flight Attendants, but the rapid descent was only for the passengers. A loss of pressure and oxygen shouldn't be a problem for the flight crew. They should be on an oxygen mask anyway. The passengers will also get an oxygen mask in the event of a real emergency.
I think he could have chosen other words. Virtually, any other set of word chosen at random would have been better, I mean almost anything short of maybe "Allah Akbar!" or "Death to America!"
I mean almost anything short of maybe...
Goodbye cruel world.
Here, hold my beer and watch this...
Sullenberger would have done it better.
An Air Canada flight lost cabin pressure and descended rapidly and I kept eating my scrambled eggs and bacon. They're not going to replace it after they repair the plane and you'd go hungry all the way to Saskatoon.
He could have said: "If you like your altitude you can keep your altitude."
Speaking of dropping like a rock and fear a crash, the President is gonna speak soon. I'm not sure of the wording, but it most certainly will include lots of lying, scapegoating, and most unfortunate of all, a plan of action to fix something. Now if that doesn't scare you, you haven't been paying attention. This is a man who's every solution is worse than the problem and worse than doing nothing at all.
I just want to brag a little here: I never voted for this dude.
the President is gonna speak soon
Awesome! Because more droning deception from our Truthless Leader is sure to correct those mischievous basic laws of economics ...
They arrived at RDU 2 minutes ahead of schedule.
A fact underappreciated by the passengers.
Which reminds me of a Shelly Berman routine, but I cant find it.
He is still alive.
They arrived at RDU 2 minutes ahead of schedule.
Were those two minutes enough time for them to change into clean pants?
lol Sixty.
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