For those of you who have been on an airplane when oxygen masks dropped down, what were the circumstances?

It was very very windy and we hit the tarmac so hard upon landing that the masks fell down. I can’t remember what type of plane it was. I think it was a Wellington to Palmerston North flight, so something small-ish.

@SQUEEKY2 It can be commercial or non-commercial. Maybe there is a better descriptive? Aerodevice, such as an airplane, helicopter, space shuttle, etc? Anything up in the air where an oxygen mask is scheduled to drop automatically upon an electronically generated warning.

I’ve been on a plane three times, and nothing like that has happened. One of the flight involved bad weather though. We were flying at midnight. Suddenly there was a voice announcing that we were in a bad weather area and everyone had to stay calm. Things got better afterward, though it did give me a chill down my spine…

A girlfriend of mine was a Pan Am flight attendant back in the day. I’m going to ask her for a story or two. She has a lot of stories. Her best advice is stayed buckled while seated, and I do after hearing some stories. I fly about 3–6 round trips a year for 30 years now, and the oxygen masks coming down has never happened to me.

@Mimishu1995 That isn’t uncommon. Most flights are non-events, but flying through bad weather happens enough that it isn’t unusual.