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mask (Cover), noun camouflage, cloak, cover-up, deflection, device, disguise, excuse, facade, false front, feint, front, guise, lame excuse, masquerade, mere cossetics, obscuration, pretense, pretension, pretext, prooessed motive, refuge, screen, sham, smoke screen, stratagem, subterfuge, varnish, whitewash
mask (Shield), noun camouflage, deflection, disguise, false front, false identity, incognito, masquerade, pretense, shield, veil
See also: camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover, denature, disguise, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, false pretense, guard, hide, obliterate, obnubilate, obscure, plant, pretend, pretense, pretext, ruse, screen, shroud, stifle, strangle, subterfuge, suppress, veil


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Eloise Massingham also fitted his oxygen mask and turned on the supply.
If he'd delayed putting on his own oxygen mask he would have been unconscious in 15 seconds but at least the passengers would have heard the pilot telling them not to panic before they died.
But passengers today told how they had feared for their lives as the aircraft plummeted and oxygen masks dropped down.
 
 
 
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