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John F. Kennedy, right, and Edward M. Kennedy aboard the Victura in Hyannis Port, Mass., circa 1946.

Qantas to Examine Oxygen Bottles

By TIM JOHNSTON

Published: July 28, 2008

SYDNEY — Air safety authorities investigating last week’s explosive decompression aboard a Qantas aircraft have asked the airline to inspect the oxygen bottles carried on the rest of its fleet.
The move by Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority is the latest indication that investigators believe that an exploding oxygen bottle may be responsible for blowing a hole the size of a sedan in the side of the Boeing 747-438 as it flew at 29,000 feet between Hong Kong and Melbourne.
...A number of passengers on the flight complained that some oxygen masks, which should deploy automatically in the cabin when a plane decompresses at high altitude, did not work....

Wikipedia article "Flax".

flax

n. - 亞麻, 亞麻織品, 麻布

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - アマ, 亜麻の繊維
v. - たたく, せわしなくする

aboard 
adverb, preposition
used when talking about getting onto a ship, aircraft, bus or train:
The flight attendant welcomed us aboard.
Welcome aboard flight BA345 to Tokyo.
The train's about to leave. All aboard!
We spent two months aboard ship (= on the ship).

decompression

(dē'kəm-prĕsh'ən) n.

1. The act or process of decompressing.
2. A surgical procedure used to relieve pressure on an organ or part, such as the abdomen, cranium, or spinal cord.

de・compression

━━ n. 【コンピュータ】（圧縮されたデータの）解凍.
⇒decompress

decompress

(dē'kəm-prĕs')

v., -pressed, -press·ing, -press·es. v.tr.

1. To relieve of pressure or compression.
2. To bring (a person exposed to conditions of increased pressure) gradually back to normal atmospheric pressure.

v.intr.

1. To adjust to normal atmospheric conditions after being exposed to increased pressure.
2. Informal. To relax: decompressed after 12 hours of driving.