Airplane crew forgets to pressurize cabin, mild body horror ensues - Sensationalist Headlines

https://gizmodo.com/airline-passengers-bleed-from-ears-and-nose-after-crew-1829220218 As the New York Times reports, that’s exactly the horror that erupted shortly after take-off yesterday as the Jet Airways flight ascended to a cruising altitude. Passengers started to panic when they couldn’t breathe, and “dozens” of the 166 on board started bleeding from orifices in their heads. Decided to omit the bleeding from orifices and choking from the headline so squeamish readers can avoid cringing into another dimension by just reading the title.

Jesus that's horrifying.

Welp, I’ve slowly grown more and more afraid of flying and this is totally not helping :^)

Guess you better not get in cars anymore because you're more likely to die in them.

Hey man, I was in the same spot as you. Never flown alone in my entire life and it was fucking intimidating to say the least. All in all, it's fine. Kinda boring after the take off but there's some nice views. Much less scary than you'd expect.

Car accidents are rarely catastrophic. It's not often 100+ people are turned in to red paste simultaneously because someone rear ended someone else. If I hit a building in a car, I might survive, maybe even walk away. If I hit a building in an airplane I and a dozen other families are hamburgers and we're now a national tragedy.

Atleast I won't go deaf from car accident

any aircraft built from the 80s onward is the safest form of travel possible.

Yeah but we're not talking about survivability, we're talking about accident rate. We recently went a full year without a single commercial aviation fatality as compared to the tens of thousands in auto accidents each year.

https://imgur.com/AD0KsCy Plane accidents aren't all catastrophic either.

I wouldn't compare both tbh, seeing how there are thousands of planes, but in turn, there are billions of cars on the road.

I know what they mean and it is an accurate way to describe what is happening but god "...started bleeding from orifices in their heads" is such a weird up sentence.

The difference is, that you see it coming more or less and it's almost instantly. In an emergency, an aircraft is like an unstoppable rollercoaster where you die together with hundreds of people, screaming and crying, unable to regain control. Not afraid of flying but just sharing my thoughts after having heard several flight recorder audios.

That's because they typically include literally any fault at all in these statistics. Which if we did the same with automobiles would massively shift the statistics.

"Another passenger expressed anger about the incident on Twitter, saying that there were no instructions from the cabin crew about using the masks after it was clear that something was terribly wrong. Passengers reportedly complained that oxygen wasn’t flowing to the masks" How the fuck.

wait a minute why are people bleeding from orifices? don't they know that bleeding from venturi tubes increases throughput and is 90% more cost effective in an energy to throughput ratio? These people are terrible bleeders!

Or pulverize your legs as they get stuck in bent metal.

At least that's quicker. lol, I have no idea what dialect of Ancient Greek you're speaking, but just in case you're serious, I think it's because atoms tend to disperse under lower pressure and thus begin to boil. In fact, things boil so much that they freeze when subject to a low pressure environment.

I know far more people involved in serious car related incidents than people in plane related incidents. You are far more likely to die in a car accident than in a plane...

You should read up on what percentages are my dude...

If they both get in to accidents at typical operating conditions, the people in the plane will be far more dead than the people in the car, and far more will be dead in the plane. People can say, "Well your legs are likely to get twisted up in the metal." For a car, but the difference is that in the car accident I might never walk again. In a plane accident they might not even find my legs, or they'll be on the other side of a field. From my torso which has one arm and the other is on a different part of the field and the head is up a different passenger's ass 30 feet away. Like no shit I'm more likely to die in a car accident than a plane accident. I don't get in planes, I stay the hell away from them. If I spent as much time in a plane as I do in a car, my chances of dying in a plane accident would be far higher.

Mile travelled per passenger is the standard safety-rating for travel, and planes are way better than cars there.

As someone who almost did I can def vouch an airplane is hella safer

It's a redundant argument. It's like saying "You're likely to die by a lightning strike rather than injured, so why walk outside ever?" Watch Air Crash Investigations and look at how each incident is scrutinised. It is ridiculously safe if not setting the example for safety across the world. In fact, aviation safety sets the example for safety in ALL WORK applications. It really is amazing.

Even then, the plane ought to lockout the engines from even spinning up or something if the cabin didn't pressurize. And yeah as Shirt said, it should've pressurized automatically.

Air travel has far fewer fatalities per mile traveled and lower risk of incident per-trip, and that's even completely ignoring non-fatal severe injury, which is astronomically higher for cars. Aircraft beat cars in every single safety and accident metric by such a huge margin that I'm surprised this is even an argument.

Pressurization on manual should trigger an alarm, which is probably what happened here. Also isn't the issues the passengers had due to rapid pressurization? Like my understanding is that not having cabin pressure leads to hypoxia which you wouldn't be aware of.

This simply makes me more afraid to travel to India really

#1 quote of car accident survivors: "I never even saw it coming!" I shit you not.

it was a fluidics joke about orifice plates and venturi tubes