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Originally Posted by Alfisti
Your technical explanation is sound but the fact Alaska felt they needed to keep this bird low and restricted it's flying to above land only in case the thing depressurized, tells me they felt there was some risk of this happening.
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I haven't seen where the jet was altitude restricted? That's new information.
Being restricted from ETOPS operations if the cabin pressurization controller was failing to the Alternate mode over the course of several flights is something that would not be unusual-- there are a ton of things that restrict you from ETOPS; as well, I don't think many Captains would take a jet with this history overwater.
R.
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