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You might want to learn about Helios Airways Flight 522 crash



Oh.. Why _did_ I click on that ? :-(


That was a missed checklist item IIRC where the ground engineer had turned off the pressurisation while trying to debug a pressure leak (ironically), the pilot was supposed to check this in a couple of lists, they did but I think they glossed over it. Plus they might have ignored some inflight warnings. This is also the one where a learning pilot (also scuba diver, probably able to handle the lack of oxygen better) tried to save it but was too late.


That one haunts my nightmares.


WOW I will never sleep on a plane again.


No worries, if pressurization is lost, your body will do the sleeping all by itself.




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