Southwest 737 emergency landing--smoke in the cabin--March 5
Mar 5, 2023, 9:15 pm
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Southwest 737 emergency landing--smoke in the cabin--March 5
Mar 5, 2023, 9:28 pm
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Many air masks on the plane did not deploy.
"People started taking matters into their own hands and by force were punching the roof to eject the masks," passenger Steven Rodriguez told NBC 6 in a phone interview. "And people had bloody knuckles and all because they were punching the roof. There were little kids on the plane and elderly women."
Mar 6, 2023, 5:53 am
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Many air masks on the plane did not deploy.
A classic fight or flight response from some in the cabin, smashing the PSU covers in order to access masks, leading to injury, rapidly heating chemical O2 generators and the addition of concentrated O2 into a potential fire scenario within a confined space.
A safe outcome despite a few individuals injuring themselves to access what is only used in the event of a depressurisation.
Mar 6, 2023, 7:14 am
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You are mis quoting the article. It is a male passenger shouting about children and masks and it is passengers that have damaged the PSUs in order to force the masks to deploy and have injured themselves in this process. At no point would the flight crew deploy the pass oxy masks in this scenario.
Mar 6, 2023, 7:53 am
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You are mis quoting the article. It is a male passenger shouting about children and masks and it is passengers that have damaged the PSUs in order to force the masks to deploy and have injured themselves in this process. At no point would the flight crew deploy the pass oxy masks in this scenario.
Mar 6, 2023, 7:54 am
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The drop down oxygen masks are for depressurization scenarios not smoke in the cabin events.
As others have mentioned upstream, providing additional oxygen sources during an inflight fire could be catastrophic.
As others have mentioned upstream, providing additional oxygen sources during an inflight fire could be catastrophic.
Mar 6, 2023, 8:18 am
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That's another reason wearing or having with you a high quality N95 with a good seal may help in such an admittedly rare scenario. At least it will buy you a little more time.
Smoke in the cabin is one of the worst things that can happen. If I am not mistaken, the 90-second evacuation rule for aircraft certification is based on the fact that after 90 seconds of thick smoke in the cabin, passengers will become incapacitated from smoke inhalation and die (in an assumed scenario of some kind of crash landing with fire).
Smoke in the cabin is one of the worst things that can happen. If I am not mistaken, the 90-second evacuation rule for aircraft certification is based on the fact that after 90 seconds of thick smoke in the cabin, passengers will become incapacitated from smoke inhalation and die (in an assumed scenario of some kind of crash landing with fire).
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Mar 6, 2023, 12:53 pm
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Not sure how you stop them from doing that. It's always going to happen.
Mar 6, 2023, 2:33 pm
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People who take their luggage with them in an emergency evacuation should be strung up on charges of hindering an emergency evacuation and sent straight to jail, where they will have no access to their precious belongings.
Mar 6, 2023, 7:54 pm
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Mar 7, 2023, 2:19 pm
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If one of those selfish and moronic people hindered my escape by attempting to pull their bag out of the overhead bin I can assure you they will not be getting that bag.
Mar 7, 2023, 4:06 pm
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