A Pilot has been half sucked out of a plane at 32,000 ft.
And… oh my goodness I cannot believe this is happening again!
Hello and welcome back to IO, I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today I am talking about
some horrifying aeroplane news, that comes just weeks after a woman died in very similar
circumstances!
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Okay, so a co-pilot was nearly sucked out of a Chinese passenger jet yesterday and the
Sichuan Airlines was forced to make an emergency landing at Shuangliu International Airport
in Chengdu, 250 miles away from the take off airport of Chongquing.
Captain Liu Chuanjian spoke to a local news publication about the dramatic turn of events
at 32,000 ft up.
The captain said “There was no warning sign.
Suddenly the windshield just cracked and made a loud bang.
The next thing I know my co-pilot had been sucked halfway out of the window.”
He also claimed that everything in the cockpit was floating in the air and he suffered from
major multiple equipment failure.
He said that the plane was shaking so hard he could not read the gauges.
Luckily as the co-pilot was wearing a seat belt, which meant that he was prevented from
fully being sucked out…meaning he only sustained minor injuries, which is insane.
Just two weeks before, a woman on a Southwest Airlines flight from New York to Dallas was
sucked out of an aeroplane and dragged back in by passengers when an engine part broke
off and shattered a window.
Sadly 43 year old Jennifer Riodarn died from her injuries.
Captain Chongquing reported that the temperature dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius, forcing
the aircraft to rapidly descend.
The captain managed to grab an oxygen mask and land the plane safely, saving all 119
passengers on board from harm.
I for one cannot believe the co-pilot who was semi sucked out was okay!
Thank goodness.
I don’t like flying but I do it a lot anyway as I live in Canada and my family lives in
the UK..… when the first plane sucking happened, I kind of thought, like …it is a fluke…
It probably wouldn’t happen again… but hello…two in a short space of time.
While passenger window cracks are far less likely, apparently cockpit windscreens do
shatter quite regularly.
Extreme hail, for example, has the ability to crack a windscreen.
On top of that, windscreens usually see around 5000 flights each before being replaced, meaning
they can be weakened.
Each airline tends to have a protocol in place in response to windshield breaks.
One pilot who spoke to the Telegraph newspaper said he had experienced 4 windscreen smashes
in his career, each needing an emergency landing.
I guess the good news here is that planes can still be landed safely in these situations.
Okay, so that is all I have here, before I go…I just want to read some comments from
one of my recent videos last week about an abandoned spooky military base in the UK.
Samira Xox said: When I see Rebecca I say Rebecca Rabbit eats carrots.
Is that weird??
Lol….. yes a bit!
*do some Rabbit ears* Afroz Hossain said: I once ate a pigeon which
was cooked..
it was disgusting?
I ate pigeon once too, and it was delicious, but I am a vegetarian now.
The awakening came!
Well there we go….