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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI had a scary situation in a plane on friday...and was looking to see if anyone
could help me find out what actually happend.
someone told me that sometimes there are archives of ATC, but
I haven't been able to find it online...
I've looked through a couple of sites..and found some flight data...
but nothing about why we lost pressure or the actual chatter in the cockpit.
any suggestions from the pilots I know are in this forum?
here's my original thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018203075
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)However, the information might take a week or so to turn up, so keep checking. You probably will not be able to get ATC tapes or transcripts without a Freedom of Information Act request unless they publish the transcript as part of a public report. Your incident, as you described it, was doubtless very frightening but not as dangerous as you might think. I am a retired airline instructor, and we trained pilots for exactly this kind of incident all the time. The loss of pressurization could have been caused by a variety of things, and the information probably will appear in one or the other or both of these two databases, but give it a little time for them to process and post it.
http://www.asias.faa.gov/portal/pls/portal/PORTAL.wwa_app_module.show?p_sessionid=110820
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/AccList.aspx?month=9&year=2012
MrsBrady
(4,187 posts)did a great job in getting us on the ground safely...
but part of the fear came in that they did not say much....
would have been nice to know what was up...
we were wearing our masks and prepping for a nasty landing.
luckily we landed ok...but I don't ever want to go through that again.
all 75 of us, not just me..were pretty freaking scared and rattled.
had to be there, i guess.
thanks...i'll keep checking around.
av8rdave
(10,569 posts)If we are over terrain that precludes a rapid descent to 10,000' (where you need to get to if you lose all pressurization), we have predetermined "escape" routes that allow us to do so. Ditto for oceanic flights where you have no ATC radar to keep flights separated. We are required to plan for just such a situation.
While I'm sure things felt very scary for you at the time, that's something we train and prepare for. You probably didn't hear much from the pilots simply because it gets pretty busy when that goes on. They are on oxygen too in that case, which makes managing communication (even between themselves) a little tougher.
I'm glad it turned out well. Sorry to hear it was a little spooky for you.
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)has a recent discussion of this on his page.
Bigleaf
(2,050 posts)sgsmith
(398 posts)Mainly, what airline and flight number? Or if you don't remember the flight number, departure and arrival cities and approximate time of flight.
With these you should be able to check flightaware.com for the flight path for your flight.