Thread: Airline Passengers' Ears And Noses Bleed After Pilots 'Forgot' To Pressurize Cabin

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A Jet Airways flight in India, traveling from Mumbai to Jaipur, had to return to Mumbai for an emergency landing after just 45 minutes in the air. The pilots reportedly “forgot” to flick the switch that stabilizes cabin pressure, and as a result, multiple passengers bled from their ears and nose.

“The 9W 697 Mumbai-Jaipur flight was turned back to Mumbai after take off as, during the climb, crew forgot to select switch to maintain cabin pressure. This resulted in the oxygen masks dropping,” said Lalit Gupta, deputy director general with the country’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation, according to the Hindustan Times. “Thirty out of 166 passengers experienced nose and ear bleeding, some also complained of headache.”

The Boeing 737 landed safely early Thursday at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. A few passengers tweeted out video and photos of the incident...

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That doesn't make sense. Gotta be a little more to the story. It's says they forgot to flip a switch that 'maintains cabin pressure'. So maybe it was instant depressurization or something. I mean you have general aviation planes (say a Mooney Acclaim Ultra) that you can fly at 25,000 ft and it's not even pressurized, even though you do have to use oxygen at that altitude. So it's not a lack of pressurization in and of itself. Never once in any of my pilot studies have nose bleeds been mentioned in regard to pressurization or non pressurized in regards to altitude. But like I said, maybe it had to do with rapid depressurization.