These are the new times where real time events are captured on film and blogged. Thank goodness nobody was injured aboard Alaska Flight #536 where Jeremy Hermanns writes about his terrorizing experience when a hole was ripped in the plane and the cabin depressurized at 26,000 feet:

As the smell of acrid AV-gas/JP4 and burning plastic filled the cabin, it created more fear in the eyes of the holiday passengers around me. We were all gripped in silence, surrounded by the white noise from the engines that eerily engulfed the plane into a surreal atmosphere. And as the oxygen masks deployed from the ceiling in a familiar, video-esque manner, we all grasped them in fear - trying to figure out how to breathe through the flimsy pieces of plastic. Parents were the most confused – as the masks were too large for their babies’ faces and were not easy to put on in such a panicked situation.

The hole was created by a non-union baggage handler running into the side of the plane moments before takeoff. As the plane reached altitude the hole ripped open and the cabin depressurized. Amazingly the plane did not crash.

Jeremy is one of the creators of the Blogebrity site and one of his associates, Kyle Bunch, can’t resist cracking a perhaps ill-timed joke:

While we’re ever so proud of his steady camera work during the emergency landing, we can’t help but ask–what, no podcast?

KomoTV has video (QuickTime) taken by another passenger, Damon Zwicker. Worth repeating again: thank goodness nobody was hurt, but man, why didn’t that baggage claim handler tell somebody before the plane took off?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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