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Consciousness. no problem with the door. so we can confirm that. other 75 passengers being accommodated. they say nothing about a loss of pressurization. but it s the faa that confirmed with cnn that the crew so it doesn t differentiate between a flight attendant or a pilot noted a pressurization problem and declared an emergency. what about this unconscious passenger? is he or she okay? we understand they were treated at the airport in buffalo, and they are okay. but as you said last hour we ve only heard of one. if you descend at that rapid of a rate who s to say everybody else is okay? but we have on the record that one lost consciousness. okay. jean casarez, thank you so much. let s move on and talk about baltimore. new video just in to cnn of the arrest of freddie gray. let me somehow yo this. he s the 25-year-old baltimore man whose death in police custody has sparked this new round of fierce protests against police brutality. ....
Only in japan but all over the world. that s it for me. thanks very much for watching. i ll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. for our viewers in north america, newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. all right. let s get straight to this breaking news here on this afternoon. i m brooke baldwin. here s what we know. this united express plane, it was leaving chicago s o hare airport a couple hours ago. it had to be diverted to buffalo, new york and made this emergency landing after a passenger lost consciousness. so let s begin with what we know. jean casarez is with me. we re hearing from the faa, they re officially reporting it was a pressurization problem. we just got that in. a pressurization problem. but here s what we know. it was united flight number 5622. it left chicago this morning at ....
9:32 a.m. it was bound for connecticut. it made that emergency landing in buffalo, new york, at 11:40. we originally heard because a passenger lost consciousness. now we re hearing that there was a pressurization problem. we re also learning from flight trader 24 some more information. this is according to them. there was steep descent of that aircraft. it took them from 38,000 feet to 10,000 feet in about three minutes. what we re learning now, one person loss of consciousness. so that emergency landing was made in buffalo. that person was treated with emergency personnel. they were released. now the issue is 75 more passengers getting to hartford connecticut. okay. stay with me jean casarez, as you get more information. one of our aviation analysts pilot, joining me now. david, a couple points here as we re getting all this. number one, when you hear pressurization problem, what does that tell you? well what it tells me is ....
Job properly everyone perished on board. in this case there was time for the pilots to take corrective action if that was indeed the problem. i think that would be more likely a problem. as les mentioned, most of the doors are plug doors. it would be very difficult for them to open. in this particular model of aircraft there s an external cargo door that does maintain pressure. we ve seen that door fail the seal on that door fail before. when that seal fails, it can cause a slow decompression but nothing explosive or extremely rapid. okay. so a lot of possibilities that could lead to this pressurization problem. thank you all very much. we re going to stay on this. again, if you re just joining us there was a pressurization problem on board this flight that had left chicago heading to hartford connecticut. they had to divert to buffalo, new york. one person unconscious. we re working to figure out ....