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Romney questions why airplane windows don't open after wife's flight scare
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said at a fundraiser over the weekend that he is glad his wife, Ann, is safe after a plane she was flying on made an emergency landing last week, but he also questioned why airplane windows do not open.
The Los Angeles Times reported Romney made the comments at a Beverly Hills fundraiser. Ann was in attendance at the event, the newspaper said.
“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound," the GOP nominee reportedly said of his wife's plane scare.
"And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were," he continued. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go ... and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem."
"She was choking and rubbing her eyes," Romney said of Ann's experience, according to the Times. "Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound."
Ann Romney was flying from Nebraska to California last week when her plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Colorado after the pilot discovered smoke in the aircraft's cabin.
Oxygen fuels combustion, and airplanes are typically kept completely sealed during flights.
Romney has begun allowing press to cover his fundraising events since comments he made to donors at a closed-door event in May were secretly videotaped and leaked online.
