A fact that's sure to surprise travelers is that these masks contain just 10-20 minutes or so of oxygen. This may not sound like nearly enough to be of practical use, but you can rest assured that ...

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 ...

Passengers feared the plane would crash as oxygen masks were released amid fears the change in pressure levels could cause some people to lose consciousness, according to AP. “I heard a muffled boom, ...

Oxygen masks deployed on a United flight from San Francisco to Maui last week. A passenger said people on the plane were terrified, and he was planning what to do if it went down. Another recent ...

The ordeal left passengers breathless. A pilot on an Air France flight had to enact an emergency landing after a dangerous loss in pressure prompted the flight crew to deploy oxygen masks. The ...

People were flying on the VA993 from Sydney to Brisbane shortly after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday when the plane lost cabin pressure ...

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 though there wasn’t any ...

More The announcement on Flight UA914 told everyone to “wait for the oxygen masks to fall from the compartment, then put them over your head and pull down,” according to Simple Flying.