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Malaysia Airlines Emergency Diversion to Penang


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Contact photographer Raymond Wang

What: Malaysia Airlines Airbus A330-200 en route from Chennai to Kuala Lumpur
Where: Penang International Airport
When: Sep 15 2012 8:04
Who: 195 passengers
Why: While en route, the plane developed cabin pressure issues. The Free and Independent News site reported that the pilot dropped the Airbus rapidly from 39,000 to 10,000 feet. Passengers aboard the flight were screaming, crying.

Apparently the crew wasn’t in much better shape. (Panic mode)

Apparently an automated voice announced the emergency to passengers. (I wonder if it was the automatic pilot?) In the chaos, some of the oxygen masks failed. (That source also indicated 120 passengers aboard. Maybe people in a panic can’t count?)

Also this item was twittered: Samy Vellu was on board troubled Chennai-KL flight

Pilots diverted to Penang and made a safe landing. There were twitters by passengers swearing it was the worst flight ever

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