The flight after an hour comes back and lands emergency, panic breaks out among the passengers.
(Giovanni D'Agata) It is among the circumstances most "mimicked" by the hostesses in the indications for in-flight emergencies: the use of oxygen masks that "rain" from the ceiling in case of cabin depressurization. A Singapore Airlines flight was forced into an emergency landing at Changi Airport due to cabin depressurization.
The plane, which departed on Monday morning, November 19 at 05:30 from Singapore and bound for Paris, arriving at 11:42, had to go back and make an emergency landing less than an hour after take-off. The flight, which was bound for Paris Charles de Gaulle, had soared to 24.000 feet and was over Malaysia when it had to return to Singapore. The oxygen masks were deployed and the plane dropped to 6.000 feet.
Photos were taken inside the plane by a passenger who said he was transferred to the Singapore Airlines flight after the Air France service he was booked on was canceled due to technical problems. “After 45 minutes of take-off, the masks fell, there was no panic on board because everything seemed normal,” they said. “The pilot took a long time to give us an update and the plane dumped fuel for an hour before landing.
Singapore Airlines confirmed that the plane returned to Changi Airport due to a loss of cabin pressure, saying it landed at 2:30 am local time this morning. Using another plane, the flight leaves at 6 am and will arrive in Paris five hours late. According to data from the monitoring site FlightRadar24.com, the aircraft in question operated a flight from Auckland to Singapore on 3 September. It therefore appears to be out of service until a short test flight of less than 20 minutes on November 13, before regaining clearance by returning to service today Monday morning as flight SQ336 from Changi to Paris Charles de Gaulle.
Those who wanted to continue their journey were put on a replacement plane. It is clear, says Giovanni D'Agata, president of the “Rights Desk” that every day in the world there are too many near misses.