Jet Airways' comment on the incident is awaited.
Over
30 passengers of a Jet Airways Mumbai-Jaipur
flight on Thursday complained of nose and ear bleeding and
headache due to loss of air pressurisation in the aircraft.
The
Boeing 737 operating the flight (9W 697) returned to Mumbai and
passengers were treated by airport doctors.
A
Directorate General of Civil Aviation official said the incident
occurred in the climb phase as the crew forgot to select bleed switch
which is used to maintain cabin pressurisation.
According
to Flight Radar 24 website, the Boeing 737 aircraft had climbed upto
10,000 feet and was close to Surat when pilots decided to return to
Mumbai.
"As
a result, oxygen masks got deployed. Out of 166 passengers on board,
30 passengers are affected who have nose bleeding, few have ear
bleeding and some are complaining headache.
All
the affected passengers are being attended to by the doctors at the
airport," a DGCA official said.
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