Passengers on a United Airlines flight from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Chicago were diverted to Detroit Metropolitan-Wayne County Airport after their plane lost cabin pressure at 40,000 feet.
Flight 4166, a CRJ-700 jet operated by GoJet (on behalf of United) was above northern Ohio when it lost pressure around 7:45 a.m. Sunday. The plane was rerouted to DTW Airport, and landed without issue around 8:20 a.m., according to FlightAware, an online database of air traffic information.
Data on FlightAware shows the plane losing thousands of feet in elevation in mere minutes. Between 7:47 a.m. and 7:48 a.m., the plane descended more than 6,000 feet…