Budget South African airline Safair experienced a loss of air pressure on a flight between Johannesburg and Cape Town on Sunday night – the second incident in two days on the same route‚ to its passengers’ horror. “Shocking‚ terrifying experience!‚” Johannesburg’s Alice Cardarelli ‏@AliceCardarelli tweeted. “Smoke in the plane‚ absolute panic‚ urgent descent and no communication until five minutes before landing. Most oxygen masks were detached‚ none had flowing oxygen in them.”In a statement‚ the airline offered an apology to its customers.“Flight FA103 departed from Johannesburg to Cape Town at 20:16 on 24 January 2016. As the aircraft reached approximately 32000 feet‚ Captain Lawrence Banda and First officer Charles Peck noted that the air pressure wasn’t stabilising as it should and that the aircraft was experiencing a very gradual loss of pressure.“The team decided to act cautiously and began safety procedures and a return to Johannesburg. These procedures included reducing speed‚ lowering altitude and releasing the passenger oxygen masks manually as a precautionary measure.“Captain Banda and his crew safely landed FA103 at OR Tambo just after 21:30‚ where FlySafair ground-teams met passengers. We’d like to thank Captain Banda and his crew for their professionalism and strict adherence to our safety standards and acting in accordance with their strict training to ensure safety comes first‚” the airline statement said.“Once in the terminal building passengers were greeted by staff who offered the option of a later flight‚ and assisted with any alternate arrangements that passengers needed. Most passengers elected to continue on to Cape Town on a back-up aircraft while some others elected to take flights the next day or make alternate arrangements. Full refunds are being processed for all passengers and the airline is on standby to assist in any way that we can.”A similar incident occurred on Friday morning where flight FA202‚ also from Johannesburg to Cape Town‚ returned to Johannesburg‚ with a gradual loss of cabin pressure.FlySafair said its technical teams are presently investigating the source of the problem‚ “but say that early indications are that the two issues are not related”...