The fastest, most modern vehicles like airplanes are also full of mysteries that no commercial airline will reveal to you.
Airplanes are the most modern, fastest and most convenient means of transport today. Alone in the sky, without having to jostle with other vehicles. Therefore, many people use this vehicle to travel, work….
But this fastest, most modern vehicle is also full of mysteries that no commercial airline will reveal to you.
What is flying? It sounds very “epic” , but the reality is sitting in a jet-powered metal tube and being thrown into the sky at 500 miles per hour.
After boarding, you will be guided and served by flight attendants.
After boarding, you will be guided and served by flight attendants. With modern equipment on board, your journey will go through very quickly when you sip a cup of coffee and drop your soul into your favorite movie or watch the clouds fly through the window.
The feeling of being lost in a world of white cloud fields when it is sunny is also very interesting! But there are a lot of “secrets” that most passengers don’t know and no airline is foolish enough to “reveal” to passengers.
Such as:
You often see the oxygen masks used in classic airplane disaster movies, an indispensable item along with life jackets. When preparing to take off, the flight attendants both instruct and model for you how to get a mask in case of an emergency.
Have you ever wondered what happens when you pull the mask down?
“If in the event that the cabin is depressurized, the compartment above your seat containing the oxygen mask will automatically open. At this point you need to sit still, quickly reach the nearest masks. and pull down firmly to let the oxygen out”.
But have you ever wondered what happens when you pull the mask down? In most cases, the oxygen generator is located on each seat. These machines provide supplemental oxygen during times when the pressurized environment inside the cabin does not provide enough air to breathe. Most aircraft are pressurized at altitudes between 5,000 and 8,000 feet.
However, these machines are only meant to provide temporary oxygen – usually for 14 to 20 minutes. This is designed to provide enough oxygen for the time it takes the plane to descend (about 12,000 feet or less).
The RAT is on the belly of the plane.
The car runs out of gas, then stops to fill it, what happens when the plane runs out of gas while flying?
On August 24, 2001, Air Transat flight 236 lost power to all two Rolls-Royce turbofan propellers while flying across the Atlantic Ocean. The Airbus A330-200 with 301 passengers and crew was en route from Toronto, Canada, to Lisbon, Portugal when the fuel leaked.
Fortunately, the captain of the plane was able to successfully fly the plane more than 100 miles and make an emergency landing at the nearest airport in the Azores. The flight miraculously escaped thanks to a small windmill called a ram gas turbine or RAT for short.
The operating mechanism of the RAT is to take advantage of the wind to generate electricity, helping important components in the aircraft’s control panel to operate and control the fuselage.
RATs are usually located in different areas of the aircraft, depending on the model and manufacturer of the aircraft. For example, the RAT is located in the belly of the fuselage of a Boeing 787 (pictured above). The turbines, on the other hand, are stored in a compartment under the wings right on the Airbus A340s.
Toilets on planes are often small and cramped. In movies, we often see it as the location of secret dates. But in fact, this place that should be very private is not as private as we think.
Most toilets can be opened from the outside even when locked.
Restroom doors can be locked and unlocked from the outside for a multitude of reasons. It allows flight attendants to enter a locked toilet in an emergency. In other cases, it allows crews to restrict people from using the restroom when preparing to take off or land.
Despite their best efforts to keep the plane clean, due to the short turnaround time, they could not clean all surfaces despite their best efforts. So what is the dirtiest place on an airplane?
According to research, the place where the tray is folded behind the chair is the place that contains the most bacteria. It even contains more bacteria than a hand wash basin.
The place where the tray is folded behind the seat is where the most bacteria reside.
Like ships, many aircraft are equipped with freezers to store dead bodies.
With billions of users every year, passenger deaths on planes are inevitable. Although when detecting passengers with health problems, the crew will divert to the nearest airport, but sometimes it is not in time.
After the passenger is confirmed dead, the crew will first perform a very careful handling of the body. and if possible, stay away from other passengers. If there is room, that unfortunate passenger will be placed in an empty row or while in business class, where there is more space. However, on crowded flights, there may not be room to move the dead, at which point the corpses will be wrapped up and strapped to a seat.
Singapore Airlines, which has more than 100 long-haul planes, has been known for equipping some of its planes with “corpse cabinets” to store those who have died on long flights.
Indeed the world of commercial aviation remains a complex and mysterious place!