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OCR: EUSTACHIAN T 'UBE OUR EUSTACHIAN TUBE connects the middle part of your ear to an opening near your throat This tube makes sure that the air pressure inside the space of your middle ear IS the same as the air pressure outside different, you cannot hear well, and your ear may be painful. This can ha ppen when you are in an aircraft that taking off, and the pressure inside the aircraft 18 lower than that inside your ears. However it you yawn or swa low the eustachian tubes open your ears pop as the eardrums adjust and the pressures are equalized swallow