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comment by reguile
reguile  ·  3123 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security

If the AC goes out, and assuming the lines of oxygen masks suddenly stop working?

What sort of danger would a big thing of dry ice have in those conditions? People would just put on their O2 masks and the airplane would scrub/release the CO2 from the atmosphere in time. As well, dry ice is CO2, so it would be noticable as everyone gets short of breath, and the big cloud of fog would be a massive tell as well.

3.2 oz of shampoo is an amount not enough for any of the conventionally existing gelled explosive materials to cause significant damage. The limit isn't arbitrary or stupid.

http://blog.tsa.gov/2008/02/more-on-liquid-rules-why-we-do-things.html





snoodog  ·  3123 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The masks dont drop on low O2 only on on pressure drop

reguile  ·  3123 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I assume the pilot or passengers can manually trigger them, no?

kleinbl00  ·  3123 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Put it in a sealed container and watch what happens.

My cousin's husband earned himself a couple dozen stitches with one of those.