Pilots don't have automatically-deploying oxygen masks. If they don't know that the plane's oxygen levels are down, say, while flying at 36,000 feet, for whatever reason, and manually deploy their masks, they will pass out within a minute.
Also, if you're in the Death Zone (named after Everest's altitudes) without oxygen you will faint in thirty seconds if your automatically-deployed masks run out of oxygen.
The masks have cylinders of oxygen attached to them. They will last about 12 minutes, not the whole flight, like you thought. This is enough time for the pilots to get you to a safe altitude.
If they're conscious.
If they're not, you're all gonna die. But when you finally hit the mountain, you'll have been long unconscious.
So don't worry about it.
Good to know.
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13 minutes of oxygen instead of 12?
Not really too sure how the math would work out in either scenario.
A marijuana plant might save you.
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