IndiGo Crew Calls Mayday As Flight Suffers Cabin Depressurisation At 11,000 Feet: What We Know
The SOP in case of a drop in cabin pressure is one of the routines in-flight announcements that we have all heard every time when we are flying.
But other than the instructions not many have experienced such a scenario in real life. And when that happens it is nothing but chaos on board.
Passengers on the IndiGo flight 6E-6654 from Lucknow to Bengaluru on Friday night experienced the nightmare scenario after it suffered cabin depressurisation just before it was about to land.
Mayday, Mayday
According to reports, the Airbus A320 (VT-ITM) suffered depressurisation at an altitude of 11,000 feet, when the flight was some 240 kms away from Bengaluru.
As per the procedure, the crew of the flight declared Mayday, and contacted Bengaluru air traffic control to request for clearance to descend to 10,000 feet which was immediately given.
In the meantime the overhead oxygen masks were dropped to help the passengers breathe better.
According to The Times of India, the crew declared operations normal at about 130 km from touchdown and landed safely.
¡°A320 operating flight 6E-6654 from Lucknow to Bangalore did a priority landing at Bangalore. The pilot observed a caution message related to the air-conditioning system. The pilot followed his standard operating procedures. The aircraft is currently being inspected by the technical team at Bengaluru,¡± a spokesperson of IndiGo told The Times of India.
Thankfully there were no reports of any passengers getting injured from the scary incident.
Not the first
However, this was not the case when a similar incident happened on a Jet Airways flight in September 2018.
Jet Airways Flight 9W697, which was traveling from Mumbai to Jaipur with 166 passengers and five crew on board was forced to return to Mumbai after the crew forgot to pressurize the cabin.
The drop in cabin pressure had resulted in some 30 passengers experiencing bleeding from the nose and ears.
