Come fly the toxic skies
Headlines From The Times
L.A. Times Studios
4.1 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So there's this plane. It's descending into Boston. |
| 0:04.0 | Inside the cockpit, the captain is slumped in his chair. |
| 0:10.0 | Beside him, the co-pilot is starting to pass out. |
| 0:15.0 | The co-pilot manages to get his oxygen mask on, |
| 0:19.0 | and then he grabs the captain's arm and forces him to get his mask on too. |
| 0:26.4 | The captain slowly starts to come back to life, and he looks at his co-pilot through his mask, |
| 0:32.7 | and his eyes just grew wide with fear. |
| 0:36.9 | It had been a pretty ordinary flight up until this point, except for one thing. |
| 0:42.3 | There'd been this weird smell that had just kind of spread throughout the plane that day. |
| 0:49.3 | Passengers and flight attendants had been coughing and wiping their eyes. |
| 0:55.0 | And as the plane was descending down into Boston, the pilots briefly lifted their oxygen masks |
| 1:02.0 | and they could still smell the smell as the runway drew closer. |
| 1:07.0 | The pilots parked the airbus at the gate, but they had no memory of landing or even taxiing the flight. |
| 1:14.7 | They went to the hospital for treatment, and the co-pilot spent the next week at home in bed, vomiting and shaking and feeling like a train and run them over. |
| 1:25.9 | So what does it all add up to? |
| 1:27.9 | You have this mysterious smell, strange symptoms, a trip to the emergency room. |
| 1:34.0 | The signs were all there. |
| 1:36.7 | Something had gone really wrong with the plane's air supply. |
| 1:40.9 | ATF line 47, we are declaring emergency at this time. |
| 1:45.0 | We have smoke in the cockpit. |
| 1:47.0 | A repeat emergency aircraft, 4-7. |
| 1:49.0 | The way in, we had a few passengers that weren't feeling very well. |
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