Flight returns as oxygen masks fail to operate mid-air
Before every flight, airlines assure travellers that the overhead masks will deploy in case the cabin pressure dips. But on a recent Delhi-Addis Ababa flight, when the pressure dipped soon after take-off, all the masks did not get deployed, while some didn’t have air flow in them.
Luckily, the aircraft was not at a cruising altitude. It quickly descended to 10,000 feet — where breathing without pressurisation was possible — before returning to land safely in Delhi.
The scare happened on Ethiopian Airlines’ flight ET-687 on September 15, which took off with 223 passengers for Addis Ababa at 6.40am.
