Almost water landing?
 

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/spirit-airlines-passengers-told-to-put-on-life-vests-suspected-mechanical-issue/



now I realize I wasn’t there and I don’t know all the details but really, they told them to prepare for a water landing just in case? this really had to have been a really severe “mechanical failure.”

did we just have a overzealous new captain?

thoughts?

Possible miscommunication between flight deck and cabin crew? Spirit issued a very vague statement about the flight.

Uh, I have questions.

No it wasn't "almost a water landing". Come on now

maybe the crew was watching the movie Sully last night on Netflix, and it got them all hyped up.

and maybe one of them was a < insert first name>.pilot social media influencer and needed some new content. 🤷‍♂️

Sounds like some new FAs either freaked out or misunderstood. No CA worth a damn would brief a ditching for a loss of pressurization.

That’s exactly what happened, you can bet on it. They probably weren’t new either. FA said something stupid over the PA and stamped the CA’s name on it.

this is most likely what happened.

FA wanted an mbj ron is my assumption. No better way than destroying every lifevest on the aircraft at an island outstation.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2024/05/28/spirit-airlines-pilot-on-flight-to-fort-lauderdale-instructs-passengers-to-prepare-for-possible-water-landing/

A little more detail. Hopefully the news has this wrong.