US airlines flight drops for 28,000 feet in 8 minutes. Here is what happened next

The Boeing 777 plane, Flight 510, was carrying 270 passengers and 14 crew members when the incident occurred.

A United Airlines flight en route from Newark to Rome carrying 270 passengers and 14 crew members experienced a sudden descent of 28,000 feet in just 8 minutes due to a cabin pressure issue.

The Boeing 777 plane, Flight 510, had taken off from Newark Liberty International Airport at 8:37 p.m. local time but returned to the same airport at 12:27 a.m.

United said there was no loss of pressure and passengers’ oxygen masks did not drop, but the pilots could not be certain.

According to the data provided by the tracking service FlightAware, the Boeing 777 aircraft plummeted from 37,000 feet to less than 9,000 feet in eight minutes.

Pilots are trained to respond to a loss of cabin pressure by descending to an altitude that is low enough for people on board to breathe without oxygen masks.

Passengers were later accommodated on another aircraft, and they eventually reached their destination safely, the United Airlines stated.

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