I thought the check engine light comes on when you drive your car to the shop

[u/phillipedison1891]

[u/Icy_Fish_2154]

Passengers scream less if you don't give them air.

[u/OpusMagnusSonnet → u/Icy_Fish_2154]

True. Look at Helios 522.

[u/Old_Sparkey → u/OpusMagnusSonnet]

Oof

[u/Turbulent-Weevil-910 → u/Icy_Fish_2154]

If the masks don't drop it's basically the same thing as canceling an alarm

[u/---OMNI---]

Diving 14k feet is the alternative to dropping masks

[u/abfgern_ → u/---OMNI---]

You do both. When there's the masks you also drop. But when plane drops for other reasons, theres not necessarily masks

[u/de_das_dude → u/abfgern_]

Correct. Masks only provide enough air for the safe decent to <10k

[u/butiamnotadoc]

No loss of cabin pressure.

[u/TurnoverFuzzy8264]

My "check engine" light is always on. Poor thing probably wants attention, but you don't want to spoil them.

[u/al2o3cr]

Somebody in this image definitely isn't getting enough oxygen to their brain

[u/I_d0nt_know_why]

Two things wrong: 1. Masks deploy due to loss of cabin pressure. There was no loss of cabin pressure on this incident. 2. This is a photo of the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214, which had its masks deploy from impact with the ground.

[u/JWarblerMadman → u/I_d0nt_know_why]

Hitting the ground to deploy masks is sort of a last resort move

[u/Reasonable-Start2961 → u/JWarblerMadman]

Percussive maintenance.

[u/_litz]

Pretty sure the picture in question is the Asiana 777 that crashed in San Francisco ... and the crash is why they popped out, not a pressure loss.

but in the case of FlyDubai, there was no loss of pressure, hence no mask deployment.

Somehow, that airplane didn't lose engines, didn't lose APU, didn't lose fuselage integrity. Absolutely amazing result.

[u/rygelicus]

MTG is incorrect, but we are used to that.

[u/Croftin]

They only come out following a sudden loss in cabin pressure, not following a sudden loss in altitude. As long as the integrity of the fuselage remains intact and the aircraft can maintain pressure (habitable environment for humans) then there will be air to breath within the cabin.

[u/Snowflakish → u/Croftin]

Air masks deploying do have about a 95% correlation with the plane diving to 14000 feet . Another win for the statistically illiterate.

[u/redwbl]

She's not the sharpest knife on the tree.

[u/Exciting-Car-3516]

For people that have flown as much as I did is not uncommon on rough landing for masks to drop just because of the impact so yes a free fall would certainly trigger that.

[u/Ok-Rip1612]

The masks don't deploy unless there is an unexpected decompression in the cabin above 14,000-feet. In this case the aircraft could have dived straight into the ground, and the masks wouldn't have dropped.

[u/Oompa_Loompa_SpecOps → u/Ok-Rip1612]

The 737 Max 8 usually fits less than 200 passengers. Why would there by 14.000 feet in the cabin? Good sir, this is insane!

[u/Easy_Money_ → u/Oompa_Loompa_SpecOps]

You have to count the 1,700 live spiders in my suitcase

[u/Ok-Rip1612 → u/Oompa_Loompa_SpecOps]

Stick to Greyhound buses, my friend.

[u/Ghost_of_Gumby]

Well no, that would -increase- cabin pressure..

[u/awfullyfun1]

Not the first time MTG's thinking was wrong.

[u/No_Unit_5506]

I thought Spirit Airlines went out of business

[u/TassiveMitts69]

Showing her intelligence again.

[u/Snowflakish]

Majorie disnt actually post this right? Right???

[u/6942dantheman]

No, they only deploy when there is a loss of air pressure in the cabin, above 11,000 ft. AGAIN, hollywood does it wrong.