“If the airplane loses pressure, oxygen masks will drop automatically,” the safety video on American Airlines flights says. The photos show panicked passengers with the yellow oxygen masks around their mouths but not their noses. Former flight attendants said that Flight 1380 underscored the importance of the safety instructions delivered to passengers as the planes taxi to the runway. During her five years as a flight attendant, Bartlett said, the oxygen masks never dropped during an emergency. But not once in her 35 years as a flight attendant were the oxygen masks needed in flight, she said.

Source: National Post April 20, 2018 16:07 UTC