Passengers aboard a Jet Airways flight forced to make an emergency descent in Yangon yesterday have described terrifying scenes in the cabin after oxygen masks were deployed.
A drop in cabin pressure forced the Boeing 739 carrying 180 people from Mumbai to Bangkok to land at Yangon International Airport at 1:50pm yesterday.
Staff “feared suffocation” among the passengers, some of who were struggling to breathe, an official from the Department of Civil Aviation told the Global New Light of Myanmar.
“During the journey, we experienced low cabin pressure, heavy turbulence… and breathlessness,” Dharmil Thakkar, one of the passengers, told Mid-Day.
“Then, the oxygen masks dropped down and, with their help, we managed to breathe a little better.”
“While receiving security instructions in numerous flights, I had never imagined that one day we would have to use these masks.
“Hats off to the young cabin crew who took care of scared passengers on board, and the captain who managed safe emergency landing at Yangon airport.”
Passengers were flown to Bangkok on another plane later that night.
