Originally Posted by
eng3
I dont think "deployed" means activated. Dropping down doesnt activate them.
You yank down on the tubing which pulls a pin or switch to trigger the chemical oxygen generator. As long as no one did that, I would think they are still good to use.
You can bet that if they dropped and an announcement played and we're talking about an entire plane full of people who were described as panicking- someone activated one. I think the most likely case is the article is trash and none came down and all that happened was an announcement played.