Narrative:

We departed [for destination with two stops]. Both legs were completed at FL400 and 430 respectively. On the last leg after a total trip time of 12 hours flying and one to go we climbed from FL410 to FL430 due to extreme mountain wave. The throttles were being moved from max thrust to idle and our speed varied from .863 to .77. After 15 minutes of relatively stable flight at FL430 and with no warning we experienced a rapid decompression with the cabin climbing from about 6500 feet to above FL200 in about two minutes. The cabin annunciator was illuminated as well as the 'cabin' audio annunciator. We put our masks on selected mask microphone; [advised ATC] and began an emergency descent at over 5000 fpm. Passing through 33;000 feet the cabin controller displayed 'A013'. The cabin then began to recover; quickly passed below 10;000 extinguishing the cabin annunciator. We leveled at FL300; switched to manual cabin pressure control mode and were able to complete the last hour of flight to our planned destination. The passengers described the event as - 'while watching a movie the cabin quickly became very cold so I put my jacket on; then suddenly I heard a rush of air and saw the lav door blow open toward the rear of the plane and felt my ears begin to hurt. The masks dropped so we put them on. We could not communicate with the pilots as the galley partition door was closed.'after landing the cabin was set back to automatic and a short ferry flight was conducted at 5000 feet. All indications were normal. I have not downloaded the maintenance computers at this time. The hardest part was deconflicting the traffic in the descent as there were multiple airplanes below us which did not allow for an optimal rapid descent.

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Title: Falcon 2000 Captain reported experiencing a rapid decompression at FL430; during the emergency descent through FL330 the cabin recovered and flight continued to destination at a lower altitude.

Narrative: We departed [for destination with two stops]. Both legs were completed at FL400 and 430 respectively. On the last leg after a total trip time of 12 hours flying and one to go we climbed from FL410 to FL430 due to extreme mountain wave. The throttles were being moved from max thrust to idle and our speed varied from .863 to .77. After 15 minutes of relatively stable flight at FL430 and with no warning we experienced a rapid decompression with the cabin climbing from about 6500 feet to above FL200 in about two minutes. The CABIN annunciator was illuminated as well as the 'CABIN' audio annunciator. We put our masks on selected mask microphone; [advised ATC] and began an emergency descent at over 5000 fpm. Passing through 33;000 feet the cabin controller displayed 'A013'. The cabin then began to recover; quickly passed below 10;000 extinguishing the CABIN annunciator. We leveled at FL300; switched to manual cabin pressure control mode and were able to complete the last hour of flight to our planned destination. The passengers described the event as - 'While watching a movie the cabin quickly became very cold so I put my jacket on; then suddenly I heard a rush of air and saw the LAV door blow open toward the rear of the plane and felt my ears begin to hurt. The masks dropped so we put them on. We could not communicate with the pilots as the galley partition door was closed.'After landing the cabin was set back to AUTO and a short ferry flight was conducted at 5000 feet. All indications were normal. I have not downloaded the maintenance computers at this time. The hardest part was deconflicting the traffic in the descent as there were multiple airplanes below us which did not allow for an optimal rapid descent.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.