Name: 飛行機の翼の下を歩くことはありません。 (Never Walk Under the Wings of Plane, Here's Why)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T09:31:41.000Z
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There’s so much going on in airports and on board the planes that you don’t need

But there are things you do want to know — yet no one will tell you about them.

Most airports have this big folding corridor that you walk from the building to the aircraft,

but some still have buses in their service.

And even though the distance is not that big, you have to cram into them instead of walking.

That’s simply because ground crew don’t want you to wander around the airfield.

You can distract the workers, or worse, get in big trouble when a nearby engine starts.

If you get off the bus and step away too much, the ground crew might ask you not to walk

There are two reasons for that: first, the wings of a passenger plane are quite close

to the ground, and you can hit your head on them if you’re inattentive; and second,

again, if an engine starts and you’re close by, you just might be wooshed into the turbine.

Trust me, after that, you’d have peace of mind.

Also, piece of arm, piece of leg—you get the picture.

Some safety rules that don’t make sense to you leave the crew none the wiser.

For example, many pilots don’t get the idea behind allowing flight attendants to walk

around the aircraft at the cruising altitude.

The airplane is hurtling forward at the speed of hundreds of miles per hour — how in the

At the same time, when the plane is only about to take off and moving at a snail’s pace,

they have to be strapped in their seats for some reason.

If you were ever worried about how the pilots find their way in the dark when landing at

There’s an incredibly complex illumination system on the ground that helps the crew navigate

the airplane, and it’s not just the red and white lights along the runway.

The lights actually start popping up long before the runway so that the pilots could

easily find their way, and different patterns mean different things, which your captain

The hardest and most dangerous part of any flight is landing.

So much so, in fact, that all commercial planes will tell the pilots to decide whether it’s

And the airplane literally says it out loud!

It’s called a ‘decision altitude’ — a point of no return when the crew has to make

a choice: either to land the aircraft or to go up and make another circle around the airport.

Any lower, and there would be no going back.

Let’s admit: even when the “Fasten your seatbelts” sign is on, many of us pretty

Most of the time, although you still do it at your own risk, that doesn’t have any

But you’d better pay attention and buckle up when the captain tells the flight attendants

to take their seats — it means the plane is about to hit some really nasty turbulence.

There’s a reason you won’t ever see an elderly person or a child in the emergency

If an emergency does occur, the passenger sitting closest to the exit might have to

open the door for the rest of the people on board.

While there’s still time before the takeoff, the flight attendants will approach the passengers

in the emergency exit row and instruct them on what to do if they’re unable to do it

So those passengers have to be able-bodied adults.

Ever wondered why they ask you to keep your seat back upright upon takeoff and landing?

That’s because if you lean back, you might block the passenger right behind you, and

in case of emergency they’ll have a much harder time evacuating.

Apart from that, it’s always good form to ask the person behind you if they’re okay

After all, they might be working on a laptop or just have long legs, and you might cause

a lot of inconvenience by being inattentive.

Never mind the fact that the airline has assigned you both in the Sardine section, packed in

so tightly that neither of you has any wiggle room, but that’s something for another video.

When a flight attendant offers you a drink, you want to avoid carbonated ones.

You see, carbon dioxide stimulates intestinal gas production — plainly speaking, you’ll

probably experience bloating and overall discomfort.

Tea and coffee may also be risky beverages.

Regulations require that water be taken from secure sources, but not all airlines follow

Even boiled, though, it can contain some harmful bacteria, and if you drink tea or coffee made

with such water, don’t be surprised with some unpleasant after effects.

This isn’t about airplanes, but still: you might have seen in the movies how people getting

They presumably avoid hitting the rotating blades with their head, but in reality it’s

Even the tallest person won’t be able to get into such a trouble.

This is just our intuitive reaction to something being over our head — we do the same in

a room with a low ceiling, even though we know we can’t possibly hit our noggin on

So it’s not something to lose your head over…

If you’ve flown with different airlines, you might have noticed that some of them require

In fact, there are several official boarding methods, each used by different airlines.

The most common one — and, ironically, the least effective — is the rear-to-front method,

where passengers take their seats starting from the back of the airplane and gradually

The most efficient method, taking on average about 10 minutes less, is the random seating,