Shock as passengers wear oxygen masks as plane suffers 'technical issue'

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Shock as passengers wear oxygen masks as plane suffers 'technical issue'
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The viral footage sparked fear among some users, with one asking 'how is no one literally panicking?'

shared five days ago by Danielle . The footage shows passengers on a plane wearing oxygen masks deployed from their seats. A caption shared with the post simply reads:"thanks for the trauma @easyJet x.":"easyJet can confirm that flight EJU7259 from Palma [in Spain] to Edinburgh [in Scotland] on 8 August 2023, was met by emergency services on arrival in Edinburgh as a precaution only due to a technical issue.

A flight attendant puts an oxygen mask to her face on board a plane. A video of passengers wearing oxygen masks aboard an easyJet aircraft as the plane landed due to a technical issue has gone viral on TikTok.due to a technical issue on the aircraft. The oxygen masks were deployed only as a precautionary measure, in line with safety procedures.

The easyJet spokesperson said:"The safety and well-being of our passengers and crew is easyJet's highest priority, and easyJet operates its fleet of aircraft in strict compliance with all manufacturers' guidelines."was reported to be"considerably high" in a February 2022 study inThe study added the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board reported that airplane accidents involving U.S. air carriers were found to have a 95.7 percent survival rate from 1983 to 1999.

The study also cited a later statistic from 2018, which reported a survival rate of 86.3 percent for commercial aircraft accidents from 1990 through 2014. "These statistics show that the survival rate of most air accidents is considerably high, but the fatality rate caused by technically survivable accidents is also very high. Therefore, keeping the efforts to saving lives in technically survivable accidents is one of the most significant problems in modern aviation," the study said.

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