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Plane Has Cabin Pressure Trouble

The Associated Press Friday, Feb. 4, 2000; 1:26 a.m. EST

SAN FRANCISCO  A flight from Los Angeles to San Jose had trouble controlling cabin pressure Thursday, forcing a drop in altitude and the deployment of passenger oxygen masks.

No one was hurt and the passengers were able to breathe on their own. But some of the 75 passengers were shaken up by the problems with Shuttle by United Shuttle Flight 2622, spokesman Jim Peterson said.

Four reported earaches, United spokesman Kurt Ebenhoch said.

The problem occurred about 10:10 a.m., 20 minutes before landing and the plane dropped its altitude to cope, although there are conflicting reports on how far.

Peterson said the plane dropped to 10,000 feet from its cruising altitude of about 32,000 feet. United spokesman Ebenhoch said the plane dropped to 8,000 feet from 25,000 feet.

The Boeing 737 landed safely in San Jose, where engineers were trying to determine what caused the problem.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 04, 2000

Answers

martin, why is the subject line "non Y2K"? How do you know? The Boeing 737 landed safely in San Jose, where engineers were trying to determine what caused the problem.

-- ??? (why@why.com), February 04, 2000.

Why?

See request at

http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002TuF

If you have any information that this is a y2k problem please let us know.

Regards

Martin

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 04, 2000.