Wild Ride

[aaronk25]

I realize that things are busy upfront but had the people in the back been informed early on what was going on, it would have alleviated a tremendous amount of anxiety and genuine fear.

I'm guessing there was one person on the radios declaring a emergency and the other flying or monitoring autopilot transitioning into the descent.

Your a pilot you know how it goes fly the plane first, talk to ATC and make sure your not gonna hit anybody on the way down then once all the other work is done talk to the passengers.

The pax arn't going anywhere their along for the ride and if I was in the back I would rather have the crew focused 100% on the duty at hand than giving me lip service over the PA. Once it's under control they update the cabin.

Sounds like they did exactly what a professional flight crew should do.

[flyboy0681]

I'm guessing there was one person on the radios declaring a emergency and the other flying or monitoring autopilot transitioning into the descent.

Your a pilot you know how it goes fly the plane first, talk to ATC and make sure your not gonna hit anybody on the way down then once all the other work is done talk to the passengers.

The pax arn't going anywhere their along for the ride and if I was in the back I would rather have the crew focused 100% on the duty at hand than giving me lip service over the PA. Once it's under control they update the cabin.

Sounds like they did exactly what a professional flight crew should do.

 

 

So ends this chapter.  BTW, United offered a $100 voucher for incident.

[Mooneymite]

I've had 3 RDs (rapid decompressions) in my career.

 

 

Holy Cow!

 

In three flying careers: military, commercial and fractional...I've never had one.  Many pressurization "issues" over the years, but never took the "rubber jungle dive".

 

Was there any common denominator in the three?