Yesterday morning, an American Airlines flight from Boston to St. Thomas made an emergency landing at JFK Airport after some sort of "pressurization problem in the cabin." The plane apparently dropped 27,000 feet in less than a minute, and one passenger said to the Post, "It was a roller-coaster ride. My stomach... dropped, and I was freaking out. I didn't know what was going on. My heart was pounding. I had sweaty palms."
Another passenger said, "People were opening their window shades and looking out. You could see they were pretty nervous. The plane came in smooth [at Kennedy], and everybody clapped in the end. I thought the captain was great." American Airlines said passengers were put on another flight and that the Boeing 757 would be inspected. This comes two days after the Southwest Airlines "fuselage rupture" caused a Boeing 737 to lose pressure.
