DISCLAIMER – I am not planning on smashing the window on an airplane.

  • jeffw@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It would suck stuff out, the oxygen masks would drop, they’d land the plane

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      By the way:

      Does anybody know if it is actually oxygen that comes out of these masks?

      I think it could also be normal clean air at a suitable pressure.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        I think its a chemical generator that activates then you pull on it and generates oxygen for up to 10 minutes, but that’s enough time for the pilots to get the plane down to 10,000 feet or below, which has breathable air.

        • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          It absolutely is a chemical generator. Because it’s actually pure oxygen, and carrying that onboard a plane in any other form (oxygen bottles etc) at an amount that would keep 300 or so people alive would make the plane even more of an explosion hazard than it already is.