Oxygen masks were wrongly deployed on an Air New Zealand flight, the New Zealand Herald reported. The plane had been descending 7,000 feet to avoid turbulence, the airline's safety chief said. One ...

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Talk about fight or flight. Passengers on a recent United Airlines flight were sent into a panic when an automated emergency announcement came on to tell them to put on their oxygen masks — even ...

Yes, we know that flying is typically considered the safest way to travel. This doesn't change the fact that we're hurtling along tens of thousands of feet in the air, in a vehicle that still seems ...

It took their breath away. As if Boeing planes weren’t plagued by enough problems of late: Passengers flew into a panic after oxygen masks deployed in their faces aboard a Boeing 737, as seen in a ...