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1115 Breathing
1115 Breathing
emergency system and the assumption not adopted in the final design. oxygen system or a plenum-reservoir to
that an oxygen system failure “would The SAB, in its report, observed the provide breathable air in case the pilot is
be an unlikely occurrence.” F-22 was the only jet in the Air Force’s en- unable to activate the emergency system.
Instead, “shutdowns have occurred tire inventory whose pilots experienced a “A review of safety incident data
more frequently than was anticipated,” high rate of hypoxia. Although the fighter’s showed that the F-22 aircraft was the
the SAB wrote. Designers at the time existing, manually activated emergency only aircraft with an abnormally high
also worked on a modification that oxygen system was deemed adequate, the rate of hypoxia-like incidents whose
would have released stored, 95 percent F-22 was also the only aircraft outfitted cause could not be determined,” the board
oxygen into the life support system if with an on-board oxygen generation report stated. “All aircraft experienced
a failure occurred, but that feature was system that did not have either a backup low rates of incidents caused by a hard-
ware failure, a hose obstruction, or mask