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wsj-Fire Hazard in Some Boeing Jets Prompts Concerns
BY ANDY PASZTOR

A cockpit blaze aboard a United Airlines jet last month revived debate over the potential for windshield electrical fires in hundreds of Boeing Co. aircraft. But the incident has focused attention on a related issue: Pilot complaints that emergency cockpit-oxygen systems on many of the same planes aren't adequate to cope with such hazards.

Starting nearly three years ago, some pilot union leaders have complained that on certain Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft, the hoses for such oxygen systems aren't long enough to allow pilots to keep on their masks while they retrieve the fire extinguisher stored at the cockpit's ...