{"id":293206,"date":"2019-09-23T06:19:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T06:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293206"},"modified":"2019-09-23T06:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T06:19:31","slug":"flight-returns-as-oxygen-masks-fail-to-operate-mid-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flight-returns-as-oxygen-masks-fail-to-operate-mid-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight returns as oxygen masks fail to operate mid-air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t have air flow in them. <\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the aircraft was not at a cruising altitude. It quickly descended to 10,000 feet \u2014 where breathing without pressurisation was possible \u2014 before returning to land safely in Delhi. <\/p>\n<p>The scare happened on Ethiopian Airlines&#8217; flight ET-687 on September 15, which took off with 223 passengers for Addis Ababa at 6.40am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t have air flow in them. Luckily, the aircraft was not at a cruising altitude. It quickly descended to 10,000 feet \u2014 where breathing without pressurisation was possible \u2014 before returning to land safely in Delhi. The scare happened on Ethiopian Airlines&#8217; flight ET-687 on September 15, which took off with 223 passengers for Addis Ababa at 6.40am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}