A Ryanair flight in Spain lost cabin pressure and deployed oxygen masks Friday, frightening the 160 passengers and causing some to bleed through their ears. Shortly after take-off from Madrid to the Canary Islands, the 737-800 lost cabin pressurisation, which protects against low outside air pressure and lack of oxygen.
"My wife and another woman were bleeding from the ears," passenger Miguel Angel Cayuela told the online edition of Spanish daily El Mundo. "Nobody was saying anything," he said. "The cabin crew seemed confused, and when we began the descent we could feel the changes in cabin pressure. Some of us had ear pain, and my wife started to bleed."
A total 12 passengers and four crew were treated by medical services after returning to Madrid-Barajas airport, suffering ear pain or anxiety attacks, said a spokesman for airport operator AENA. "These are the typical problems in a situation of depressurisation, it is nothing serious," he said.
The Boeing 737-800 plane, on flight FR 2011 to Gran Canaria, returned to the Spanish capital after the loss of pressure, the latest in a string of incidents to hit the budget carrier in Spain. "I just had the biggest scare of my life....I recommend that you never fly with Rynanair. Masks in the middle of the flight!" one passenger, Daivid Betancor, wrote in a Twitter message. "My friend's mask did not work and we had to share," another passenger, 31-year-old designer Marcos Aleman, told reporters, according to the online edition of daily El Pais.
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