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An Air Canada flight from Toronto to Phoenix, Ariz., with an Orléans family aboard declared an emergency in mid-flight and made an unscheduled landing in New Mexico on Saturday night.
The Airbus A319 landed safely after losing cabin pressure, and passengers spent the night in several Albuquerque hotels before continuing to their Phoenix destination late Sunday.
Fred Hendy, a Canadian living in Chandler, outside Phoenix, was waiting for his family from Ottawa. He said they were badly frightened by events on Flight 1849.
“My two granddaughters, my son-in-law and my daughter left (Saturday) on a flight to Toronto with a flight connecting there to Phoenix,” he said.
“As they got closer to Phoenix, they had an emergency. The plane cabin depressurized. They had to make a very fast descent and they had all the masks come down.
“They landed on an emergency basis at Albuquerque Airport,” he said. “It was very scary for them.”
He complimented the pilots for getting down safely.
Hendy said the cabin got very cold as it lost pressure.
“Why all this happened we don’t know,” he said, adding that he was able to get very little information from Air Canada.
A spokesman for the southwest region of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed the incident in an email to the Citizen. The brief FAA summary says:
“Air Canada 1849, A319, Toronto-Phoenix, diverted and landed Albuquerque, after declaring an emergency due to pressurization issues.”
The FAA said further details would have to come from the airline. Air Canada didn’t respond to a request from the Citizen Sunday.
Hendy declined to divulge his family’s names without contacting them for permission first.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
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The Airbus A319 landed safely after losing cabin pressure, and passengers spent the night in several Albuquerque hotels before continuing to their Phoenix destination late Sunday.
Fred Hendy, a Canadian living in Chandler, outside Phoenix, was waiting for his family from Ottawa. He said they were badly frightened by events on Flight 1849.
“My two granddaughters, my son-in-law and my daughter left (Saturday) on a flight to Toronto with a flight connecting there to Phoenix,” he said.
“As they got closer to Phoenix, they had an emergency. The plane cabin depressurized. They had to make a very fast descent and they had all the masks come down.
“They landed on an emergency basis at Albuquerque Airport,” he said. “It was very scary for them.”
He complimented the pilots for getting down safely.
Hendy said the cabin got very cold as it lost pressure.
“Why all this happened we don’t know,” he said, adding that he was able to get very little information from Air Canada.
A spokesman for the southwest region of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed the incident in an email to the Citizen. The brief FAA summary says:
“Air Canada 1849, A319, Toronto-Phoenix, diverted and landed Albuquerque, after declaring an emergency due to pressurization issues.”
The FAA said further details would have to come from the airline. Air Canada didn’t respond to a request from the Citizen Sunday.
Hendy declined to divulge his family’s names without contacting them for permission first.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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