Pilot’s cigarette may have ignited with oxygen leaking from emergency mask, alleges report
The oxygen mask had been changed three days earlier and was set to the “emergency” mode designed for smoke or fumes in the cockpit, meaning 100 per cent oxygen was being supplied under constant pressure.newspaper, alleges there was a sound of hissing recorded by a microphone on the mask.aviation
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