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it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
Mid-air panic as plane plunges 26,000 feet
Passengers expected to 'meet their maker' as jet depressurizes over France
PARIS - A Ryanair plane made an emergency landing in central France after the cabin suddenly depressurized, French officials and the Irish carrier said Tuesday. Up to 26 people were hospitalized.
The Boeing 737 was carrying 141 British and 27 Spanish passengers plus six crew members from Bristol, England, to Gerona, Spain, before the urgent landing in Limoges, officials in the Haute-Vienne region said.
The "depressurization incident" caused the oxygen masks on board to deploy, a Ryanair statement said.
French officials said 26 people were hospitalized and suffered mostly from chest, nose and ear pain. Ryanair's statement said 16 people "complaining of ear ache" were taken to hospital.
'Properly terrified'
The French officials said the plane lost 26,200 feet of altitude in five minutes before the landing, which the pilot requested.
"I think it's fair to say there was muffled consternation in the first few seconds," passenger Pen Hadow told Sky News. "People were clearly suffering with the shock of it, but on the whole ... people had a stiff upper lip about it and they were resigned to their fate. They were properly terrified.
"They thought they were going to meet their maker. And that's not an exaggeration," Hadow added.
Ryanair said it brought in a second flight to carry 147 remaining passengers on to Barcelona's airport, where it landed early Tuesday.
Spain's airport authority, AENA, said the second flight arrived in Gerona around 4:20 a.m. local time. In the end, 125 passengers were on this plane, an AENA official said. She declined to comment on Spanish news reports that the rest refused to get on and said they would travel to Gerona by road.
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PegaLega
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
 just reading that made my stomach turn!
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| Posted 8/26/08 11:15 AM |
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BunnyWife
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
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HoneyBadger
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
OMG so would I!!! That's SICK!!!
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| Posted 8/26/08 12:27 PM |
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Phyl
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
I totally would have lost all bodily functions!
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| Posted 8/26/08 12:28 PM |
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JennZ
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
OMG!
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| Posted 8/26/08 12:29 PM |
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Tulips915
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
OMG!!!! 
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| Posted 8/26/08 12:38 PM |
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nrthshgrl
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MrsERod
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
"mommy!" 
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| Posted 8/26/08 12:55 PM |
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PaddysGirl
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
and this is what i fear!
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| Posted 8/26/08 1:17 PM |
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4ForMe
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
This is why I need to take a Xaynx before I fly. Although, I don't think it would have helped in that situation!!!!
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| Posted 8/26/08 1:48 PM |
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AimeeE2006
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
I would freak. I already start panicking a little when there is a lot of turbulence.
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smdl
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Re: it's safe to say i would have lost all control of my bodily functions
Die from a heart attack or from gas fumes from LB? 
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