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Incident: Indonesia AirAsia A320 near Perth on Oct 15th 2017, loss of cabin pressure

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An Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320-200, registration PK-AXD performing flight QZ-535 from Perth,WA (Australia) to Denpasar (Indonesia), was climbing through FL338 out of Perth when the crew initiated an emergency descent to FL100 due to the loss of cabin pressure, the passenger oxygen masks were released. The aircraft returned to Perth for a safe landing on runway 21 about one hour after departure.


The aircraft is still on the ground in Perth about 14.5 hours after landing.



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Just spotted a dirty AF and KLM at bkk. Dont really care if the outside is dirty as long the cabin isnt and are comfy with good legroom pitch.

 

Anyways regarding QZ seems the dramatic aussie media and public have gone overboard again. Anyone could google out that any loss of cabin pressure, it is essential that the plane undergo a rapid descent and you need to pull to mask firmly to enable the of flow oxygen.

for a couple of months now the A380s are largely sitting on the ground for longer period of time as not all 6 are needed for the route and just a few flights to Seoul and MEL when its A333s go tech. But then again how do other airlines able to keep their planes relatively clean when they are all flying on average 14 to 16 hours a day. Don't see any dirty SIA or Cathay or JAL or Korean planes etc and even Air Asia planes looks clean. We should not offer excuses for MAB for not maintaning a clean image of their aircrafts.

You nid 5 planes for LHR 2X daily, now theyre down to 4 or 4+1 its difficult to keep out redundancy when the plane is already bleeding.

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Anyways regarding QZ seems the dramatic aussie media and public have gone overboard again. Anyone could google out that any loss of cabin pressure, it is essential that the plane undergo a rapid descent and you need to pull to mask firmly to enable the of flow oxygen.

All that is shown in the pre-flight safety demo.

 

Yes, loss of cabin pressure is quite a "routine" occurrence and the media has over dramatised the situation. That was why I only linked the AVHerald report as it just have the facts and not the hysteria.

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From what I can understand though, the "hysteria" was focusing on two points. (Of course, I do not know if this was true or not)

1) Cabin Crew will always be looked upon for comfort, but in this situation, apparently they did not provide the said comfort.

 

2) There was the lack of communication in English to the passengers.

Again, as I was not on that flight, I would not know if those two issues were valid.

Had the captain just announced that they are executing an emergency decent due to a cabin pressure loss warning light, a lot of the panic would not have happened.

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