“The first thing that happens during decompression at a high altitude is that you have intense pain in the ears, frost and moisture on the plane. Simultaneously, the ‘horn’ will sound.”
Lascelles dismissed speculation that an engineer had left the decompression switch on manual before takeoff.
If that were the case, he said, the passengers would have felt unbearable pain in the ears as soon as the engines throttled.
- I hope for Captain L's sake that all that is a translation error
