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Old 26th May 2009, 08:28
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FlareArmed
 
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I almost had the masks drop on a B767 several years ago. We were on descent through about 37000' when we got a cabin altitude warning. There was no rush of air or anything dramatic so we initially thought it was false until I saw the cabin was climbing through 10000', at about 500 fpm with the outflow valves closed in auto.

I noticed the bleed pressure was quite low, probably because the high stage bleed valves had stuck closed on both engines. Our solution was to extend the speed-brakes and increase thrust to get the pressure high enough for the cabin to descend again before the masks deployed.
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