Is it true that Oxygen masks on Commercial Airliners are there to get you high when you are about to crash ?

Question

Because Pure Oxygen has an intoxicating and feeling of well being, so that passengers won't panic at their imminent deaths ? is that true ?

Answer 1

Not even closed to true. First of all, those masks produce diluted oxygen mixing it with cabin air. Secondly, that O2 is free flowing, not under pressure like the crew masks, they'll help but won't keep you alive if the crew doesn't get down fast before all the air leaves the cabin. To be certified to a max altitude, a transport aircraft must be able to descend from it's max altitude to ten thousand feet in less than four minutes.

Answer 2

No. The masks are there for your survival, not an aid to assist you to die without panicking.

A lot of reasons have been given above regarding oxygen masks and their deployment, all of which hold true and are good knowledge. Nothing from my side on this aspect.

In the jet fighters and bombers, it is a normal "standard operation procedure" for the pilots to select 100% oxygen at the time of starting, taxying out and take off. Once airborne, the oxygen is switched back to normal. While approaching to land, again 100% oxygen is selected upto shut down. The reason for this procedure is to ensure that the pilots are not breathing air which may contain obnoxious gases from the surrounding aircraft. You do not get an intoxicating feeling or experience feeling of well being.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. You must be an idiot.

Oxygen masks aren't even used when the aircraft is about to crash, they are for when the aicraft depressurizes. When this happens, the pressure is too low and you cannot get enough oxygen from the air in the cabin. Oxygen masks give you enough oxygen to survive until the airplane can descend to a lower altitude where there is more air pressure and thus enough oxygen. However, they really won't give you enough oxygen to last for long, just enough to keep you alive while the airplane descends to a lower altitude at a VERY fast rate. I believe that crew members have more heavy-duty oxygen masks that can actually give them plenty of oxygen for a long time.

Answer 4

it is a stupid question. even the pure oxygen needs a time to start these symptoms. The jet pilots use the pure oxygen, too. the symptoms described by you are caused by hyperventilation and are quickly treated by holding the breath for a few seconds.

The real purpose of the oxygen equipment in airliners is to provide the passengers with oxygen supply during the accident called sudden decompression. the human is able to survive for a longer period of time only under the 5 kilometers of altitude. above this altitude, the oxygen supply is needed for a proper function of an untrained body

Answer 5

The oxygen systems on an aircraft only augment the oxygen available in the aircraft already. Essentially, at high altitudes there is enough of the other elements of air already (mostly nitrogen and oxygen, with some other gasses too in much smaller amounts). Oxygen augments the amount of oxygen required to maintain consciousness. It's not that oxygen isn't available at high altitudes, it's due to the lower atmospheric pressure the density of the oxygen molecules is lower, so one square metre of space at 40K feet will have fewer oxygen molecules in it than one square meter of space at sea level.

Anyways, no, the oxygen masks are regulated by the multiple agencies and are designed to allow the occupants to maintain consciousness... not to dope them up for a crash.

Answer 6

Bull@#$!

The oxygen masks are there to provide oxygen in a variety of emergencies, ranging from depressurization at altitude to smoke in the cabin.

There are numerous links to hypoxia and oxygen starvation at high altitude; including people climbing Everest needing to be on oxygen. Do some google therapy.

So, your premise that pure oxygen is intoxicating becomes ludicrous. If the airlines wanted you relaxed, they'd put nitrous oxide in the oxygen bottles. I don't think, no matter what your conspiracy theorist friends are telling you, that the airlines would want a pilot breathing an intoxicating gas in flight.

Unpressurized aircraft routinely fly at high altitudes with pilots on oxygen and federal aviation regulations require at least one pilot to be on oxygen above certain altitudes in pressurized aircraft.

I don't care what your conspiracy minded friends tell you, put the mask on if it drops.

Fly the friendly skies!
JT

Answer 7

No. Masks are used to keep the aircrew conscious and passengers conscious in case of an emergency such as cabin pressurization failure until the aircraft can reach an alttitude which will sustain life usually less than 15,000 ft. Or the masks are used to breathe if there is smoke or some other toxic fume or gas in the air.

Answer 8

If I were a rude person with no regard for for tactfulness or being politically correct I would probably respond with something along the lines of, "What would possess someone to ask such a STUPID question?"

Thankfully, I'm NOT like that and wouldn't say anything so inflammatory.

Someone as obviously intelligent as the asker of this question SHOULD be able to use their superior intellect to find an answer.

Answer 9

Well when I was in the RAF and working on the flight line we had to charge 21 Canberra T17 aircraft daily with Oxygen, before we connected the gaseous OXY bottles from the trolley to the aircraft we had to do a sniff test to see if the OXY was free from contamination due to long storage. (it would smell like rotten eggs if contaminated) I also had to check the flow of OXY to the individual OXY regulator in the cockpit (3 off) so that involved lots of oxygen smelling and testing and never once in 5 years of doing it did I or any of my team ever get high or have a feeling of well being.

It sound like Bulls excrement to me!

Answer 10

sure, its real. Such an order could probably settle for by ability of the President or the Commanding accepted of the North American Air protection Command (NORAD), Colorado Springs, CO. F-sixteen's have been scrambled from Andrews Air tension Base, Washington, D.C. in the process the 9-eleven activities, and have been arranged to shoot down any hijacked airplane if it may consequence in saving greater lives than it may fee. There in basic terms wasn't adequate time. the area between Boston, MA the place the airliners originated and long island city improve into too short. And the hijacker's plan wasn't obvious till it improve into too previous due. happily, the airplane headed for the Pentagon improve into compelled down in the mid-west by ability of passengers who had time and braveness to act.