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Old 6th Jan 2014, 22:32
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SQ A380 emergency landing in Baku due to low cabin pressure

I am still not fully convinced about the difficulty posed by performing an automation assisted emergency descent with an A380. I certainly concur that the "aviate" part should most definitely come first but, at least in this case with no structural damage nor control issues (reported at least) would it be so busy upfront to exclude taking a few seconds for a PA announcement ?

On a similar train of thought what would be the technical / practical difficulty to link the o2 masks deployment with some on screen pre-recorded animation explaining what's going on ?

Last but not least in this case are we to understand that this was not a case of explosive decompression but "just" a door seal failing - in other words not a sudden event but probably a progressive loss of cabin pressure ?!
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