MaxTow said:
PS Infrequent Flyer 789: "Also, 346 passengers, but 418 masks activated - something clearly wasn't right." You expect a serious answer to that?
Of course he/she expects a serious answer, because it is a serious question. Read the ASTB statement more carefully:
According to the airline, there were 346 passengers on board. Inspection by the ATSB shows that 484 masks had deployed, that is, dropped from the ceiling. Of those, 418 had been activated by pulling on the mask to activate the flow of oxygen.
484 masks dropped down and 418 were ACTIVATED. That is 72 more than required for the number of passengers. What caused so many passengers to activate more masks?