Maintenance personnel were able to fix the radio and confirm the oxygen leak, but the base did not have the necessary personnel to repair either the transponder or the radar.
As the fighter proceeded to NAS Fallon in Nevada, the oxygen leak worsened until the system was disabled completely, and the pilot was instructed to fly at low altitude.
Engineers evaluating data from the NASA shuttle test flight mission find evidence for an oxygen leak in the rear engine compartment.
He takes this action when the International Space Station develops a potentially fatal oxygen leak while three astronauts are on board.
The launching came after two weeks of delays caused by an oxygen leak inside Endeavour, a dent in the shuttle robotic arm, and finally by bad weather at emergency landing strips in Spain.
Throughout the sleep period, Mission Control, in Houston, monitored a slow but steady oxygen leak.
There was an obvious place to look for an oxygen leak.
In a pure oxygen leak, of course it will burn.
He reported an explosion after running his cell (hydrogen and fluorine recombine dramatically), but he recognized that an oxygen leak could have also caused the reaction.
The astronauts aboard the shuttle then report hearing a thump outside the shuttle and begin to experience an oxygen leak.