Flying Lawyer:
Perhaps the fact that they declared a MayDay, turned off the airway and were descending with their masks on into an area with MSAs around 15000 ft does mean it is of interest to those of us who do the routes across that part of the world.
We have set procedures for depressurisations on certain high terrain segments which require a different emergency descent profile from normal. This also might involve having diversions such as Simferopol, Odessa or Ashgabat and it would be useful to know if they did divert to somewhere off the beaten track and how they were handled etc.
As the only sensible replies that I was interested in, would only be forthcoming from someone from Fragrant Harbour, I hadn't bothered to elaborate that it was Georgia, the country, because they would obviously known that.....and besides why would Cathay be over Georgia USA? And Georgia hardly has any high terrain to worry about depressurisations (Probably 5000 ft highest peak?)
So then back to the question, any info ?
FF