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Passengers suffer nose & ear bleeding on Indian airliner as crew ‘forgot’ to maintain cabin pressure
A packed Indian Boeing 737 passenger plane had to abort its climb, turn around and return home after over two dozen people on board suffered nose and ear bleeding as the crew forgot to switch on the pressure control.
The incident happened mid-air on Jet Airways flight 9W 967 shortly after take-off. A video posted by one of the passengers on social media shows people on board breathing through oxygen masks.
The plane, scheduled to travel from Mumbai to Jaipur, promptly turned around and returned to the airport.
The plane’s crew “forgot to select switch to maintain cabin pressure,” Lalit Gupta, senior official at the Directorate of Civil Aviation, explained.
The plane was carrying 166 passengers and five crew members.
Jet Airways confirmed that the plane was turned back due to “loss in cabin pressure” and said that all people on board were “deplaned safely” and escorted to the terminal.
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