The best way to ensure the survival of your family in the event of an emergency is for you to put your own mask on before you affix anyone else’s.

— Aviation Safety procedure

Stewardesses brief passengers on this mask protocol because they were seeing parents putting masks onto their children first during sudden loss of cabin pressure, then those parents …

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