[Tina]

I was on a Spirit flight from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale on 6/30/09. We were almost to the Fort Lauderdale area when the cabin lost pressure and there was this smoke that was filling the cabin and it smelled horrible. It burned my nose, eyes, throat, lips and I couldn't breathe. Does anyone know what this chemical could of been the we were exposed to? When a cabin of a plane loses pressure, my understanding is that the oxygen masks are supposed to drop down. Well, in this case some did and some didn't. I was sitting in seat 2A and my oxygen compartment did not open. A passenger sitting behind me had to stand up and use a pen to pry open the compartment. When the oxygen compartment did open and the masks fell, they were in a tangled mess. Stewardesses were running up and down the aisle looking for things to use to pry open the compartments that didn't open. When we made the emergency landing in Daytona, we were not told where we were landing. So much miscommunication to our families who were first told that our plane was landing in Ft. Lauderdale, then they were told we were on a bus, but Spirit flew another plane to Daytona to pick us up. We waited in Daytona for 6 hours.