Author Topic: Pilot incapacitated and plane circles Gulf of Mexico for several hours  (Read 1159 times)

Offline cpxxx

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Re: Pilot incapacitated and plane circles Gulf of Mexico for several hours
« Reply #30 on: April 24, 2012, 04:04:20 AM »
Well if you're going to kill yourself, slow hypoxia is the way to go. Apparently you can feel quite relaxed. There was an incident with an airliner here in Ireland a few years ago. It failed to pressurise for some reason. The pilots didn't notice because they were becoming hypoxic. Only the repeated intervention of one of the cabin crew and finally the deployment of the passenger oxygen masks convinced the hypoxic Captain to descend. He later had very little memory of the events.

The problem isn't so much a fast depressurisation which will be pretty obvious. But a slow insidious depressurisation. That's the dangerous one.

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Re: Pilot incapacitated and plane circles Gulf of Mexico for several hours
« Reply #31 on: April 24, 2012, 06:04:14 PM »
So, either he was trying to get away for a couple days after getting this devastating professional news and his pressuriziation controller failed, or he did this to himself."

So now you are an expert in the man's thoughts as well?
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Re: Pilot incapacitated and plane circles Gulf of Mexico for several hours
« Reply #32 on: April 24, 2012, 06:38:13 PM »
So now you are an expert in the man's thoughts as well?

That was a quote from someone else on another forum.
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Re: Pilot incapacitated and plane circles Gulf of Mexico for several hours
« Reply #33 on: April 24, 2012, 08:15:52 PM »
One of the bomber co-pilots (female) became hypoxic on a flight.  We were at 13000 or 14000 for a couple of hours, she had to pee.  She walked the length of the B-24 and was seemingly unaware of the 4 passengers in the aft section.  Dropped her flight suit and pee'd in the restored (but don't even think about using it) potty near the tail turret.  Once on the ground she had no recollection of doing so.

The passengers were commenting on the "sights" even though we were solid IMC.    :devil
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