Had this PA been made, far less passengers would have had ear pain......
How do you work that out? I find I often have blocked sinuses when an aircraft descends normally. Yup i get a sore head if I cannot clear my sinuses. I have no doubt if I am ever in an emergency descent something more extreme will happen. I doubt whether it will be alleviated by a calming coment from the cockpit.
Well done to crew, job well done
As a postscript. Colleagues were on their way back from the first Gulf War on Tarom. Plane had an emergency descent and masks came down . This time the kit was perished and tube broke all over the place. I doubt if things are so bad 15 years later