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Old 04-27-2008, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by JamesJ View Post
thats wild.... what happens to the plane? what altitude did this happen? did they lose cabin pressure?
They will patch the airplane up and do what's called a fairy flight and take ti to be fixed. Not sure what altitude it was at, but aircraft like that are pressurized from take off to landing, so yes they lost pressurization. I can picture the pilots grabbing the O2 masks and thinking WTF!
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