Mitt Romney thinks it’s “a real problem” and “very dangerous” that window in airplanes don’t roll down or open. Romney made the comments at a fundraiser in Beverly Hills he attended on Saturday, where he walked away with $6 million in campaign contributions.
Romney was lamenting that “you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open” — not because there’s barely any oxygen to be found at 30,000 feet — as he relayed his wife Ann’s brush with danger last week when an electrical fire forced the airplane she was in to make an emergency landing.
“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no – and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open,” Mitt told the audience, who, apparently, didn’t bother to try to correct his misconception about, you know, space. “I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous.”
Gawker notes:
Also very dangerous: installing roll-down windows in airplanes, the cabins of which depend upon precise levels of air pressurization to keep passengers and crew members from passing out due to lack of oxygen.
Perhaps Mitt could get Bain Capital to take over American Airlines to try his new invention.