Originally Posted by Falcon20
A few years ago, a Learjet carrying golfer Payne Stewart went through sudden decompression and neither crew nor passengers donned their Oxygen masks (or couldn't get supplemental Oxygen). Eventually, an F-16 was sent to investigate and all the pilot could see was ice covered windows on the Learjet. The aircraft eventually crashed after fuel exhaustion.
Actually, the plane failed to pressurize. So the sudden decompression issue isn't true at all. Why the pilot did not realize this, who knows for sure.