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Oxygen removed from airplane bathrooms
AOL Travel
WASHINGTON — In what officials say was a security move, all U.S. airlines were secretly given orders by the Federal Aviation Administration to de-activate or remove oxygen masks from all airplane bathrooms within 21 days under an Air Worthiness Directive issued in February.
All 6,000 U.S. aircraft completed the transition by March 4, the FAA says.
The agency says it decided not to make the issue public due to the possibility that someone could use the information to cause harm to passengers. “The action was done proactively in response not to a specific threat but to general concerns that a terrorist could use the lavatory oxygen to start a fire or ignite a bomb.”
