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The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. Here are a couple of databases you could check:
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 09:05 PM
Sep 2012

However, the information might take a week or so to turn up, so keep checking. You probably will not be able to get ATC tapes or transcripts without a Freedom of Information Act request unless they publish the transcript as part of a public report. Your incident, as you described it, was doubtless very frightening but not as dangerous as you might think. I am a retired airline instructor, and we trained pilots for exactly this kind of incident all the time. The loss of pressurization could have been caused by a variety of things, and the information probably will appear in one or the other or both of these two databases, but give it a little time for them to process and post it.

http://www.asias.faa.gov/portal/pls/portal/PORTAL.wwa_app_module.show?p_sessionid=110820

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/AccList.aspx?month=9&year=2012

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