05-15-2018, 11:22 AM
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=Acer]
Wait, there's a button to depressurize the cabin?
The default state of the aircraft interior at altitude is depressurized. The pilot must actively pressurized the plane - it stands to reason he is also able to unpressurize the plane.
Wouldn't the oxygen masks come down if the plane were suddenly depressurized? Or could the pilot disable those, too? If the masks deployed, then surely a few passengers would have been able to don them before passing out.
And what about the rest of the crew? The pilot could not have depressurized the flight deck without first donning a mask himself. . .
/Mr Lynn