Sometimes while your airplane is cruising at 38000 feet and you´re enjoying your relaxing flight, reading some newspaper or savoring the entertainment system, oxygen masks suddenly appear in front of your nose and an automatic message streams trough every single loudspeaker, instructing you to pull them down and start breathing.
This happened this week to a domestic Vietnam Airlines Airbus A330 flight, flying from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). Cruising altitude was already reached when about 30 minutes into the flight an indication of "loss of cabin pressure" was received in the cockpit. As a safety procedure, the flight crew immediately started an emergency descent diverting the aircraft from its initial planned destination and oxygen masks were dropped down. A few minutes later the aircraft safely landed in Da Nang (Vietnam). No injuries or damages occurred, but the cause for the incident hasn´t been found yet. The next day a replacement aircraft was brought to Da Nang that safely took all passengers to Ho Chi Minh.
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