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Derek Lyons wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:

Derek Lyons wrote:

None of which changes the fact - the emergency oygen system has killed
110 people without ever saving a single life.


We're heading into trollville here, aren't we?

Nope. just hoping desperately, that people would be willing to
actually discuss things rather than constructing a strawman and
debunking that and then declaring the discussion over.

One of the reasons for the decline of these groups is that they slowly
devolved into repeating the same slogans, the same dogma, the same
groupthink, the same, the same.

When that happens - what reason is left to continue?

I understand your point, Derek, but I don't think you can say with certainty
that the emergency oxygen systems have never saved a life. To say that, we'd
really need to run the same disaster scenario twice, once with and once without
the oxygen masks. It might be that the masks popping down have saved lives by
preventing some folks from having heart attacks during depressurization
events. Maybe just by popping out and being reassuring in a silly dangly orange
way. Or by giving people something that they believe is purposeful to do during
a time of great stress.

I do think it is probably fair to say that it is not clear that the emergency
oxygen systems on commercial aircraft have ever saved a life during a depressurization
event.





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