Vietnam Airlines Jet Makes Emergency Landing, Cabin Pressure Alarm
Vietnam Airlines Airbus A330
Vietnam Airlines Passengers Recount Scary Moments as They Were Told to Put on Life Jackets
A Vietnam Airlines flight en route to Ho Chi Minh City diverted to Da Nang Airport when the crew got a loss of cabin pressure warning.
Approximately 30 minutes after takeoff from Hanoi at 7:30 PM on May 24th, pilots of the Airbus A330 initiated emergency descent when they received the warning and oxygen masks dropped in the cabin.
‘Tran Trong Tan, a passenger on the plane, recounted that when dinner was about to be served to passengers, the chief pilot requested all flight attendants halt their duty.
A moment later, all oxygen masks were dropped down and the air inside the aircraft became so hot and hard to breathe that the attendants had to provide child passengers with handheld oxygen cylinders, Tan said.’
Passengers were told to don life jackets as the flight prepared for a possible water landing.
The flight did land safely at Da Nang. No one was reported injured.
Image: Flickr [Simon Sees]
Category: Airnation
Please no more A330′s getting lost in the water.
Air France?
Yepp :/ I still can’t get over that accident… It’s scary if you think about it- it’s such a modern, safe, reliable aircraft and yet it can still crash. I don’t know what those pilots were thinking!
What happened? I didn’t really follow it.
Several years ago (maybe 2009?) an Air France A330 was over the water when it’s transponder signal was lost. They found the tail fin floating in the water, and soon after the wreckage at the bottom of the ocean. The plane had flown into supercooled water which built ice over the pitot tubes, resulting in the autopilot getting confused, giving the pilots bad signals. For some reason the PIC pulled the nose up, ineffectively sending the plane into a stall, causing it to drop from the sky. The pitot tubes were re-designed and pilots given more training, as if they needed to be told to pitch the nose DOWN (not UP) in a stall…
Yes, that’s right. The pilots could not figure it out and ended up crashing the plane in the ocean.
Yeahh, apparently all they needed to do was put the power setting to 85% or something and keep the nose up a few degrees. This was in their training (apparently) which Airbus had determined would keep the plane flying level even without a true airspeed indication.
I remember when this happened. This plane just dropped from the radar and they had no clue what happened.
They just dove it right in to the ocean.
Google Dịch không làm việc tốt tiéng Việt.
(Google Translator does not work well for Vietnamese)