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.

Reading the comments to that article (I know I know) someone confirmed their son was on that flight and heard the water landing comment.

Will be a tough conversation with the CP I’m sure but in reality I don’t imagine anything bad happening to them as tech they were over water.

Easy conversation actually.

“I didn’t tell her that and she did it on her own”

”Ok CA we’re sending The Wolf.

Yeah except you have passengers saying they heard the CA make a PA stating the same thing. Could be bull crap for sure I was just going off the article that was linked and some of the comments.

Because pax comments are always reliable.

Please stop quarterbacking this topic.

At least the passengers did listen this time

I never said they were reliable.