Originally Posted by
SlingBladeYup
How could you say you wouldn't be scared at all? I've been in a few abnormal aeronautical situations, and let me share a fact with you - when you are descending fast and don't know if you are going to level out at 10,000 feet or lawn-dart into a cornfield in Nebraska, it can be pretty damn unnerving... No matter what your flight experience is.
The crew doesn't make announcements very often in these situations until things are well under control, so the cabin is mostly left to wonder what is happening. One learns a little phrase in flight school: In an emergency, you aviate, navigate, then communicate.
I can understand the passengers concern and if we do have time we encourage that an announcement is made to let you know that we are descending to a lower altitude as a normal procedure in this case. One of the problems we have is that we are wearing oxygen masks and the quality of the PA announcement in this case may not be that clear.