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Niki Tsongas: I appreciate, Admiral Moran, your talking about the manual backup oxygen system, but I think we all would be concerned…

On the recordFebruary 3, 2016
I appreciate, Admiral Moran, your talking about the manual backup oxygen system, but I think we all would be concerned by the fact that you are asking a potentially incapacitated pilot to sort of help himself out of this.
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Niki Tsongas
Massachusetts

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Tsongas expresses concern over pilot safety regarding the backup oxygen system.

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