A TUI flight from Manchester to Kos Airport faced a 'serious incident,' resulting in a failure to pressurize and near-hypoxia risk for 187 passengers for 43 minutes.
Almost 200 people were left at risk of developing a potentially fatal condition after a "serious incident" in the skies above a UK airport. A TUI plane had to return to Manchester Airport in October last year after an alert following takeoff.
The crew reactivated the systems, which had been turned off by engineers performing routine maintenance and not turned back on. They believed the problem was then solved but then soon hit another issue. The oxygen mask light remained illuminated for around 43 minutes while crew and passengers were left "exposed to the risk of hypoxia" - a dangerous and potentially fatal condition where the body is deprived of oxygen.
The report found that, at that time, the "altitude window" caused "hypoxic exposure" significant enough that it could have noticeably affected people's cognitive performance. It concluded: "As the aircraft did not pressurise, the crew and passengers were exposed to the risk of hypoxia. At cabin altitudes above 10,000 ft but below 14,000 ft, without the pre-existence of significant medical issues, the likelihood of loss of consciousness is very small.
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