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Frozen North · 08-15-2005, 04:36 AM

This is an incredibly weird accident. When a plane loses pressure at high elevation, the pilots are supposed to rapidly descend to an elevation where the outside air is thick enough to breathe since those little drop-down oxygen masks the passengers use only last a couple minutes. Apparently these pilots didn't manually descend since the plane was supposedly on autopilot when it crashed... and one of the pilots wasn't even in the cockpit?

08-15-2005, 04:36 AM	#9 (permalink)
Frozen North Insane Location: Alaska	This is an incredibly weird accident. When a plane loses pressure at high elevation, the pilots are supposed to rapidly descend to an elevation where the outside air is thick enough to breathe since those little drop-down oxygen masks the passengers use only last a couple minutes. Apparently these pilots didn't manually descend since the plane was supposedly on autopilot when it crashed... and one of the pilots wasn't even in the cockpit? Last edited by Frozen North; 08-15-2005 at 05:19 PM..