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Small jet down in the Baltic Sea, possible hypoxia?


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Time of useful consciousness at 36,000 ft is not very long, and even less when the pilot is in their mid 70's and flying on their own. Those early Citations weren't equipped with the style of quick donning masks that are commonplace today. We called it the horse collar, and if it wasn't armed and worn around your neck, you didn't have much chance of getting to it in time.

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13 hours ago, Specs said:

Wouldn't passengers have 02 masks in business aircraft?

Yes they do, but there are isolated  instances where they have failed to deploy..... In this case there are so many possible scenarios ....for example here is one....

Crew passes out  while attempting to trouble shoot pressurization problem and failed to put on masks or at least "emergency descent"...Passengers have O2 masks and feel crew knows what is going on and do nothing or realize there is a big problem...but are not able to recover aircraft.

Very sad situation and the only clue available is that they said "they had a pressurization problem"........without a mask on very quickly.......well we all know what happens.

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1 hour ago, Kip Powick said:

Yes they do, but there are isolated  instances where they have failed to deploy..... In this case there are so many possible scenarios ....for example here is one....

Crew passes out  while attempting to trouble shoot pressurization problem and failed to put on masks or at least "emergency descent"...Passengers have O2 masks and feel crew knows what is going on and do nothing or realize there is a big problem...but are not able to recover aircraft.

Very sad situation and the only clue available is that they said "they had a pressurization problem"........without a mask on very quickly.......well we all know what happens.

How come there is no "like" button for Kip's post?

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Thank you for the kind words, MTL,  and in aviation it has been a strange but wonderful career

01  Year RCN

27 Years RCAF

15 Years Commercial...WD, CP, AC

Was happy going to work everyday........ if I could hear music and have a laugh

The boat was the icing on the cake and have been driving that for 25+ year

I have not one complaint...life is slower but still..... oh so good !!😁

 

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Well done Kip. 👋

 

It seems to me that you should repeat the retirement scenario and transfer out here with the boat to YYJ.  😉

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