Originally Posted by
MechEngr
If the cabin pressure gets above 10,000 feet (or some other agreed upon value) that the engines throttle back to a setting appropriate for cruise at that altitude.
I think it would have saved at least 3 aircraft that I know of - all turned into long-range cruise missiles waiting to drop on unsuspecting landscape. Lucked out so far they have missed cities.
There is likely some pressurization warning but it seems not to be reliable or sufficient.
There are areas of the Earth where that would put you into the side of a mountain.
What I do think would help is if all pilots of pressurised aircraft were subjected to a hyperbaric chamber. They would then know the warning signs of a slow depressurisation, and be able to act accordingly.