Planes are equipped with oxygen - monitoring sensors, but that may not help if the crew are already
affected by hypoxia, says Thomas Smith at the University of Oxford, who specialises in aerospace medicine, or if they misinterpret the signals, as is thought to have occurred in the 2005 crash, says Daniel Rooney at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Cologne, Germany.
This lake is the Great Lake most impacted
by summer
hypoxia — the loss of oxygen at the bottom that
affects fish and other living communities — and, according to Dr. Twiss, is a good sentinel for climate change.