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Hypoxia on flight Kalitta 66

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The voice of Hypoxia - Kalitta 66

Boy were these guys lucky. Note during the radio replies from the
aircraft that
several times the pilot implies that things are "just fine". He (they)
have no
idea how impaired they are. hypoxia can be like laughing gas...till you
happily
pass out. That they were above FL260 implies that they hadn't lost all
pressurization...otherwise they wouldn't have had as much useful time of
consciousness (UTC) as they did to make this recording. Miraculous that
they still
had enough presence of mind to contact and communicate with the center.

Listen to the attached file, these guys were VERY lucky to live to tell
the tale.
Here is the back story:

The events unfolded on July 26, 2008 when controller McCombs accepted
the hand-off . . .
of KFS66 (callsign Kalitta 66), which appeared to have a stuck mike
creating
incomprehensible transmissions. Unclear to those in the Center, however,
was that
the co-pilot's arm was all the while moving violently and uncontrollably
on the
other end as the captain worked hard to hand fly the aircraft.

Through the help of another pilot's translation, Jay learned that the
aircraft
had declared an emergency. The plane was quickly changing altitude and
McCombs
immediately began to suggest closer airports, only to receive a reply
that they
wanted to continue to Ypsilanti, MI.

Amid the chaos to translate the captain's words, fellow controller
Stephanie
Bevins turns on the receiver so that she can now hear the pilot with her
own
headset. As she thinks through the symptoms in her head, she concludes
that he must
be hypoxic, a serious condition involving lack of oxygen due to
pressurization
problems. She knows immediately that they must descend the aircraft.

Following Bevin's initiative, McCombs begins bringing the aircraft to
the lowest
altitude available in order to alleviate the possible oxygen
deprivation. Unable to
answer questions, the pilot is only able to respond to direct commands
that the
controllers now begin to voice."Descend and maintain," they repeat.

Remarkably, the captain's inability to turn on autopilot requires him to
have to
work in order to fly the airplane, keeping him conscious and the plane
airborne.
The pilot's words gradually become more understandable, and around
11,000 feet,
he returns to normal and confirms that he had, indeed, been suffering
from hypoxia.