Originally Posted by
caevans
Gotta put the Facebooker who took a video of himself with the O2 mask over his mouth up for a Darwin Award! Nice job!
You know - you really should lighten up - one passenger is dead and others were injured. Quite a few of those folks likely thought this was their last day. People do what you might consider "strange" things when faced with certain death . . . write notes, leave mementos, whatever.
For most of the passengers on that flight - there was an explosion outside - and it appears as though bits of the outside came inside - injuring several passengers. I'm sure there were some horrid sounds associated with the event, coupled with the masks dropping, the aircraft "dropping" and a passenger being sucked out of the plane (or whatever actually happened). It is the stuff of movies.
Certainly better of you to think you'd be a smooth operator in any given emergency - and not fumbling for a clean set of drawers.
There's really nothing funny about what happened - and, sorry, but I don't fault the passengers for putting that ridiculously-sized mask on incorrectly. Folks panicked . . . give them a bit of a break.