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Air Asia Flight Loses Cabin Pressure during flight|| What is Cabin Pressure Loss?

An AirAsia flight flying from Australia to Indonesia loses it’s cabin pressure and forced to return back to Perth(Australia). The incident has occurred on  22nd October. The flight was forced to emergency land on Perth. # What is Cabin Pressure loss? Most of the commercial aircrafts are often fly at an altitude more than 12000 m…

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An
AirAsia flight flying from Australia to Indonesia loses it’s cabin
pressure and forced to return back to Perth(Australia). The incident has
occurred on  22nd October. The flight was forced to emergency land on
Perth.

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What is Cabin Pressure loss?

  • Most of the commercial
    aircrafts are often fly at an altitude more than 12000 m above sea level.
    Atmospheric pressure at 12000 m is 19330 pa. It is too lower than the sea
    level atmospheric pressure of  101325 pa.
  • To maintain the suitable
    atmospheric pressure for human beings, Aircrafts are maintaining a cabin
    pressure which is equivalent to the pressure at an altitude of 2438 m
    above sea level. Which is approximately 75300 pa.
  • The aircraft cabins are
    pressurized using filtered and cooled air from the engines.
  • Aircraft’s cabin pressure
    can be lost due to a number of reasons like the technical problem of the
    pressurization system, incorrectly sealed doors, a crack in the structure
    of aircraft like the crack in the window,  fuselage etc.
  • The only way to overcome the
    cabin pressure loss is to decrease altitude of the aircraft. The Air 
    Asia flight also plummets from 35,000 ft(10,668 m) to 10,000 ft(3048 m).

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