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FAA: No more oxygen in airplane lavatories - Travel - News - msnbc.comIm in shock, said Kate Hanni, executive director of Flyersrights.org, a nonprofit airline passengers' rights organization. We get reports of mid-air decompression events all the time. So now going to the bathroom on a commercial flight can kill you? Im panicking just thinking about this.
Although rapid decompression is rare, it does happen. In October, for example, oxygen masks were deployed on an American Airlines flight enroute from Miami to Boston after the cabin lost pressure when a two-foot hole tore open in the plane's fuselage . The crew declared an emergency, and the plane safely returned to Miami. Passengers were panicked, but no one was injured.
But under the FAA's new directive, any passengers who happen to be in the airplane restroom should such an event occur would no longer have immediate access to oxygen.