Overstressed King Air

That's the best comment yet on this...salute!

"Ric" wrote in message
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"Dale" wrote in message
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In article ,
Mitchell Holman wrote:

"Alan" wrote in
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Passed on to me from a friend - evidently the pilot's windshield
cracked
at 27k feet, the crew dumped pressurization per the checklist and
donned
oxygen - only there wasn't any coming to the masks. They passed out
and
woke up at about 7000 ft and had to pull out of the dive.


Sounds like grounds for litigation to me...........





That NTSB report said the O2 system worked on the ground. It also said
the crew dumped pressurization THEN donned masks...perhaps doing that in
the reverse order would have been better.

Flight manual advises to slowly reduce the pressure in the cabin but make
sure there is a + ve px in the cabin to support cracked window. IE.. they
shouldn't have dumped px. Oxy should have been on already and available at
the masks.

These clowns turned a run of the mill cracked windscreen into a major
drama that has stuffed an airframe and nearly killed themselves.