A Plane Went Completely Silent at 26,000 Feet, With Nobody Responding. Why Did It Just Keep Flying for Hours?

A cabin-pressure failure turned a routine flight into a deadly ghost-plane mystery.
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Boeing's enduring safety challenges: From mid-air depressurization to manufacturing oversight failures

Boeing 737 Safety Under New International Criticism.A recent event with a Japan Airline Boeing 737-800 has brought back anxiety in aviation safety and the reliability of the aircraft to the world. The ...
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Small plane lands itself in first-ever use of automated aviation tech during mid-air emergency

A twin-engine turboprop aircraft landed itself at a Colorado airport on Saturday after a sudden cabin failure — a first-of-its-kind emergency touchdown carried out entirely by an automated flight ...
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Nov. 20, Miami, Fla. / Airbus A300

American Airlines Flight 1291 experienced a cabin pressurization failure at 16,000 feet, necessitating an emergency return to Miami. After landing, following a pilot report of fire, an emergency ...
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Catastrophic failure assessment of sealed cabin for ultra large manned spacecraft in M/OD environment

First, authors analyze three typical catastrophic failures of manned spacecraft in an M/OD environment. For the astronaut casualty mode caused by low-pressure or hypoxic environment, hereinafter ...
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Researchers improved the catastrophic failure assessment of sealed cabin for ultra large manned spacecraft in M/OD environment

Hypervelocity impacts of Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris (M/OD) seriously threaten the safety of manned spacecraft and astronauts in orbit. At present, M/OD above 10 cm, which can be monitored and ...