A Southwest Flight Lost Cabin Pressure And Had To Make An Emergency Landing Because Passengers Started Bleeding From Their Ears

Source - A flight from Connecticut to Florida made an emergency landing after depressurization in the cabin which caused at least one passenger to bleed from the ears.

The pilot declared an emergency about an hour after Southwest Flight 1694 to Tampa took off around 8 p.m. Friday night and returned to Hartford.

Ambulances and medics met the plane on the tarmac and treated several passengers who had ear pain. At least one passenger was bleeding from the ears, the Hartford Courant reported, but none of the injuries was believed to be serious.

All things considered, this isn’t that bad. Yeah, bleeding from your ears on an airplane isn’t exactly ideal, but at least you don’t have to deal with other passengers. All you’d have to do is sit there and focus on not dying. No screaming passengers, no belligerent drunks, just a lack of oxygen and a general fear for your life. It’d probably be relaxing. Way better than having to deal with any of this.

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No thanks. I’ll take the bloody ears over any of those situations every day of week and twice on Sunday.

Come to think of it, the airline industry may be the biggest racket on the face of the earth. It’s made zero improvements over the last fifty years yet people still fly because they have no choice. Flying now is actually worse than it was back then. Look at this picture of a plane in the seventies.

Now compare that this photo of the same model plane (Boeing 747) in 2018.

The good old days really were the good old days. Whatever. At least these passengers will (maybe) get a free flight out of it. Hopefully something like this never happens again, but chances are that won’t be the case.