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No commercial aircraft lifts its wheels off the ground without providing to you a basic travel and safety briefing, which includes how to use the oxygen mask. Yes, those small custard cup devices which fall from the ceiling automatically should a sudden loss in pressure within the aircraft become compromised. Today we’re reading “Images from terrifying Southwest flight show passengers didn’t put oxygen masks on right” from USA Today … you should too.
PEOPLE: Listen to your flight attendants! ALMOST EVERYONE in this photo from @SouthwestAir #SWA1380 today is wearing their mask WRONG. Put down the phone, stop with the selfies.. and LISTEN. **Cover your NOSE & MOUTH. #crewlife #psa #listen #travel #news #wn1380 pic.twitter.com/4b14lZulGm
— Bobby Laurie (@BobbyLaurie) April 17, 2018
Are we paying as much attention to the in-flight safety briefing as we should?
What’s the big deal?
USA Today points out:
How to breath when the oxygen mask drops
But, given we are all about securely traveling, and that includes air safety we’ll be blunt.
If you wish to breathe when the aircraft’s pressure is compromised, then you must place the oxygen mask over your nose and mouth.
That is to say, if you don’t you risk depriving yourself of oxygen.
That’s is how you breathe.
The following video, from AP described as “As a blown engine on a Southwest Airlines jet hurled shrapnel at the aircraft and led to the death of a passenger who was nearly sucked out of a broken window, one passenger had the presence of mind to buy in-flight Wi-Fi to say goodbye to his loved ones. (April 18) AP” provides a first person account of SW1380.
Read the USA Today piece by click on this link -> “Images from terrifying Southwest flight show passengers didn’t put oxygen masks on right”
