US Airlines Ordered to Remove Emergency Oxygen from Bathrooms. Too Risky.

Emergency oxygen secretly removed from all U.S. airplane bathrooms

by KING 5 News

SEATTLE – If you’re doing your business in an airplane lavatory and the plane suddenly decompresses, you won’t have access to oxygen anymore, according to published reports.

The FAA secretly ordered every U.S. airline last month to empty or remove emergency oxygen tanks in all their airplane lavatories. Air Worthiness Directive 2011-04-09, as it is called, has reportedly been enacted on 6,000 airplanes across the country.

The concern is security. The FAA says oxygen generators in those lavatories could be used by terrorists to take down airplanes by turning the canisters into explosive devices,  the FAA told NBC News.

The directive was kept secret from the public until now….continued

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1 comment for “US Airlines Ordered to Remove Emergency Oxygen from Bathrooms. Too Risky.

  1. March 12, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    All gone. The oxygen, that is. Removed as requested.

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