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When Emergency Air Fails
Travel Weekly’s analysis of data from NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System reveals a long history of failures in emergency oxygen systems for both crew and passengers.
By Michael Fabey

Like every flight you’ve ever been on, the flight attendant is standing at the front of the cabin as you taxi to the runway, demonstrating the safety equipment of this particular aircraft. Your attention drifts. Is there anyone anywhere who really doesn’t know how to buckle a seat belt?

Not likely.
And what more is there to know about those masks that drop from the overheads if passengers should suddenly need emergency oxygen?

Maybe a lot, it turns out, as passengers aboard an American Airlines flight over U.S. skies and a Ryanair flight over Europe recently discovered. In both cases, the passenger oxygen system allegedly failed to deploy in incidents that resulted in forced landings.

In fact, the two incidents are far from isolated, according to a Travel Weekly analysis of NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System database. Indeed, within the ASRS reports can be found a litany of concerns dating back decades. ...

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