Scary Airline Facts That Will Make You Nervous

everyone loves flying well okay maybe most of us just tolerate it waiting in line for hours before flying through the sky in a tiny metal tube is kind of nerve-wracking still planes are safe right supposedly flying is safer than driving right well fasten your seat bels because we're about to take a look at some aspects of airplane design and air travel that the airlines don't want you to know about [Music] germ tube Airlines like to say their planes are pristine sleek and hygienic vehicles in reality they're about as clean as a movie theater floor every

second a plane isn't in the air it isn't making money as such Airlines really want to minimize their planes ground time and maximize their number of flights Ryan Air can turn around short Hall flights in as little as 25 minutes and Southwest in as little as 35 which is crazy fast but it's not much time to clean the plane often leaving staff with just 15 minutes of cleaning time before passengers board according to flight attendant Sarah keegle an economy class freshly washed blankets are only provided to the First Flight of the day after that they're

just folded and reused no matter how they've been used previously even worse those tray tables might only be wiped down once a day usually when the plane remains grounded overnight yeah think twice about boring those pretzels straight onto the tray table as passengers have been caught changing baby diapers on them one flight attendant told the guardian she had to use passenger blankets to clean stains as they weren't given enough time or supplies to clean properly and had even used them on human human feces as recently as 2023 Air Canada came under Fire for forcing passengers

to sit on seats that were still covered in vomit from the previous flight so flight attendants placed coffee grounds in the seat pouch and sprayed it with perfume to disguise the smell if surfaces can't be trusted at least you can turn on the overhead fan and enjoy a nice Cool Breeze well I'd hold off unless you want Gunk blow directly in your face in 2015 flight data website travel maath found that those vents had a greater concentration of bacteria than an airplane's seat belt buckles airport bathroom locks and even the airplane's toilet flush button so

if you want to cool off on an airplane your best bet is to just stay hydrated except even the water is dirty back in 2003 the EPA studied tap water from over 300 planes and found that 15% contained the harmful bacteria coliform which is typically found in feces that same water is often used to make onboard tea and coffee by the way while disgusting it's also hardly surprising as the water tanks and planes are irregularly cleaned so if you want to stay clean on an airplane you just need to remember don't drink the water touch

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the back of the plane as it isn't nice sitting right next to the bathroom and in my experience these seats feel bumpier so a middle seat at the back of a busy plane that's hell but if you ever find yourself stuck with this seat don't switch in 2007 Popular Mechanics conducted an analysis on the national Transportation safety boards data on airline crashes that resulted in at least a single Fatality and Survivor remember that while your odds of ever being in a plane crash are low about 1 in 1.2 million your odds of perishing in a

plane crash are even lower at 1 in 11 million anyway Popular Mechanics looked at every deadly air crash in the United States between 1971 and 2007 and what they found was shocking it seems that when it comes to survival all seats aren't created equal they found that those towards the front of the plane had only a 49% chance of survival those in the middle had a 56% chance of survival sural and those toward the back had a much higher 69% chance of survival nice and the safest seats of all well those were the middle seats

toward the back of the plane with a 72% Chance survival rate that's right the seats we think of as the worst are actually the safest go figure high tension it's easy to see people who work in certain professions as unshakeable superhumans doctors firefighters YouTubers another is the noble pilot they fly multi-million equipment and are responsible for the safety of hundreds of people surely only the most calm mature and capable people become Pilots nope like in all professions sometimes pilots and co-pilots don't get along this is why Airlines have a secret system they try not to

let passengers know about the no pair system every Captain first and second officer have a list of names that connect to their carrier scheduling system they can then add names of anyone they don't get along with on their personal list lowering the odds they'll fly together makes sense I wouldn't want to be stuck in a tiny room with my intern number 442 stop microwaving your fish in the break room 442 this is a call out however the Do Not pair list isn't perfect in 2020 2 on an Air France flight heading from Geneva to Paris

two pilots had a serious disagreement shortly after takeoff while the two men were supposed to be flying the plane they were instead grabbing each other's collars with one of them reportedly clocking the other the commotion caught the attention of a member of the cabin crew who spent the rest of the flight in the cockpit having to monitor them if only passengers had do not pair lists they could put their pilots on emotional baggage if you're anything like me you never leave the house without your Essentials personally I make sure to take my diamond play button

with me wherever I travel I can rest assured that baggage handlers the world over take their jobs seriously and handle baggage with utmost care my diamond play butt no and before you get too hopeful this violent approach to baggage handling isn't unique the internet is full of Clips like this more than just being the norm though tossing bags around like this might be the only way these guys can do their job the common Boeing 747400 can seat 416 passengers in a three class configuration let's assume that only half of those passengers check any baggage and

they only check one bag a piece that's 208 bags that need to be loaded now let's say these baggage handlers can receive a bag gently move it and neatly stack it in just 20 seconds that would mean it would take two baggage handlers 34 minutes to load or unload a plane remember that some Airlines claim to have a turnaround time of 30 minutes and you can see why careful baggage handling just isn't practical if you can't protect your bags outsides well surely you can protect their insides right using a nice big lock on your Zips

usually does the trick nothing can get by this right nothing except a ballpoint pen that is yeah getting through most zippers is as simple as jabbing them with a pen and running it along the seam once a bag has been pilfered the Zips can simply be dragged around to seal the bag according to the LA Times fewer than 500 of the tsa's 150,000 employees were arrested for theft between 2001 and 2011 or just. 3% however those were just the employees who got caught even going by those odds though you're way more likely to have your

bags handled by a TSA Thief then getting into a plane accident one convicted TSA worker claimed there was a cultur of indifference at their airport and claimed to have pilfered over $800,000 worth of Passenger Goods over a 4-year period And I thought YouTube was easy money flights of frenzy well you might think the pilots are the most essential people on the plane I reckon flight attendants deserve more praise they bring us our food show us our seats are in charge of our safety and ask the guy sitting in front of us to raise his seat

back back up when we can't summon the courage to considering they have such important roles Airlines must take good care of them right wrong shockingly for all the time they spend getting the plane ready and helping one on board flight attendants are only actually paid once the plane door shuts marking the beginning of their official shift despite this flight attendants are still expected to arrive early greet passengers check documents store bags explain emergency and Landing procedures ensure the plane is stocked with food and drink bid forw to the passengers and numerous other responsibilities all of

which is unpaid labor it's not uncommon for flight attendants to end up working 4 to six uncompensated hours every day still flight attendants do get their own secret beds and rest area on Long Haul flights but where airplanes are cramped enough as it is where could they be hiding in a whole bedroom well they're usually above overhead baggage storage so while you're napping in your seat they're napping in the hollows above you which feels uh incredibly unnerving they need those naps too as some flight attendants claim they're heavily discouraged from slouching while in uniform imagine

working a 10-hour flight sleeping on a flat pack bed and not even being allowed to rest your shoulders well they might not be comfortable but they're at least stylish right those are some Snappy uniforms but looking good comes with a heavy price in 2020 over 500 Delta flight attendants filed a lawsuit against clothing manufacturer L end who supplied their new passport Plum uniforms the lawsuit claimed the uniforms were made from cheap materials that caused breathing issues hives and hair loss oh and they also dyed the flight attendant sheets purple so clearly only the finest materials

were used as of the time of this writing that case is still pending however in November of 2023 a jury ruled in favor of a different group of flight attendants from American Airlines claiming their uniforms were causing rashes headaches and breathing problems yesh who would have guessed the most dangerous part of flying would be getting dressed in the morning bird box it's no so secret that despite how nervous we may get air travel is one of the safest forms of transportation known to man but not to birds the official term Airlines use when a bird

hits a plane is bird strike presumably because it sounds better than bird evisceration bird strikes occur far more often than Airlines would like us to believe and you may have even been on a plane when it mulched one according to the faa's wild Wild Life strike database there were 493 reported bird destructions in New York airports alone between 2021 and 2022 and even those are just the incidents reported as terrible as that is for Birds it isn't always easy on planes either take a look at the nose of this Turkish Airlines plane pretty insane right

the thing looks like it was struck by a meteorite in reality the plane was struck by a low-flying bird and while landed safely the plane not the bird it's in need of a serious nose job in 2023 an American Airlines flight suffered a nasty bird strike causing an engine fire and forcing the plane to land prematurely while no one was harmed the fire department were called and had to deal with a very uh sticky situation now don't take a picture dude uh still it could have been much worse in 1960 a flock of Starlings brought

down on a plane that had been Airborne less than a minute tragically the plane caremed into Boston Harbor and claimed the lives of 62 people the scariest part of all this there's very little Airlines can actually do about it and bird strikes cost the industry around $13 billion a year but one recent Solution that's showing promise is well googly eyes French researchers have found that what they call looming eyes near runways can be effective at scaring away certain Birds kind of like a cartoon scarecrow I can't blame them those eyes are just so judgmental high

flying brains have you ever picked up the wrong suitcase at baggage claim embarrassing right well be thankful you didn't accidentally walk off with someone's pancreas it's more likely than you think as human organs are often transported on commercial flights that's right your underwear and socks might be a few few inches of material away from a human kidney it doesn't stop there either human remains are often transported on board commercial flights as well as fresh orans and while this is crazy to realize it's actually essential when someone on the other side of the country needs a

new heart fast what do you think they're going to do call a private jet a single flight on those can cost thousands of dollars a commercial plane isn't just the fastest and most effective way to deliver liver body parts but the safest remember how much more likely are to get in a traffic accident than an air accident well human organs are valuable a heart right now is worth just under a million doll while a liver is worth over $520,000 with the kidney and pancreas going for $260,000 and $275,000 respectively that precious squishy cargo is way

safer in the air than on a road well kind of Airlines don't want to give away tickets to trained medical staff to handle the organs this means it's usually up to regular baggage handlers to my organs no if you've ever lost baggage or ended up with the wrong suitcase well I hate to tell you but it happens with organs too in 2018 a human heart was accidentally left aboard a Southwest Airlines flight and a study found that between 2014 and 2019 170 organs were rendered unusable due to Transportation issues with another 370 near misses organs

used to be stored in the cockpit but since the events of 9/11 now they're in the cargo hold along with all the other luggage man imagine how awful that baggage mixup would be yikes turbulent toilets what do you do when you're nervous on on a plane talk to a friend hold a loved one's hand well I don't have either of those so I head to the bathroom small spaces make me feel safe don't judge me unfortunately airplane bathrooms aren't actually safe at all for starters did you know that the lock on an airplane bathroom does

nothing Well it locks the door but it doesn't stop Outsiders from getting in take a look a secret antiock well what's the deal when you think about it though an airline door that can't be opened is pretty dangerous someone could pass out in there and need medical attention or a child could accidentally lock themselves in now please use this information responsibly though don't use it to play toilet peekaboo so Airline bathrooms may not not be super secure but at least there are always enough of them right well no the Boeing 737800 is the most common

commercial airplane in the world it has 138 seats and three toilets that just doesn't feel like enough surely there have to be guidelines regulating this sort of thing no according to a spokesperson from the Federal Aviation Administration there are actually no minimum bathroom requirements for commercial airliners yikes better hope Airlines don't get too crazy with cutting costs I don't want to have to hold it in across the entire Atlantic out of breath when you're worried about your luggage Elbow Room and whether you might drop 50,000 ft out of the sky it can be easy to

forget some of the other dangers of flying take air pressure for example as you fly higher and higher the air pressure gets lower and lower this is because air pressure is a measure of the weight of the air above you the higher you go the less air and the less pressure there is making it colder and harder to breathe airplanes are designed to counteract this by keeping the cabin pressure at around 11 or 12 PSI which is lower than the approximate 14.7 that we're used to but it's still totally fine if anything goes wrong however

we have these oxygen masks these drop down whenever the plane experiences a sudden drop in cabin pressure so passengers can enjoy safe breathable air without them drops in cabin pressure can result in a loss of consciousness nasty headaches and various other health issues so they're crucial with that in mind can you guess how much breathable air they provide passengers a couple of hours maybe one n nope try about 15 minutes now that's the average but the FAA only requires that they provide 10 minutes still 10 minutes should be enough as in most cases that's enough

time for a pilot to notice the drop in air pressure and descend the plane to about 10,000 ft which has a safe PSI of 10.2 still as you should know by now if a company can cut cost corners and cheap out on safety they often will John Barnett a former Boeing quality control engineer told the BBC that a quar of the oxygen masks on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner simply didn't work correctly but Boeing went ahead and installed them anyway wouldn't you know it in 2024 an Alaskan Airlines flight aboard of Boeing lost a door whil airborn

and several of the passengers claimed their air masks simply didn't work they alleged that they had to scramble around the cabin searching for functional ones which I have to say showed amazing composure on their part if my plane's door flew off I'd probably have a heart attack before the mask even deployed or didn't deploy if I was on a Boeing flight pains holes aren't something I'd say belong in a plane's fuselage and yet there are holes all over the aircraft we travel on that we're not aware of like this one now from what I've found

these hatches were built into older models of aircraft like this Saab 340 so ground crews could could pass important papers to Pilots without boarding the plane especially useful as Airlines aren't supposed to reopen doors once they're shut as it could alter the plane's weight estimation so don't worry about little cockpit holes but what about those windows they're pretty safe too rather than glass they're comprised of three panes of stretched clear acrylic each layer acts as a safeguard on the slim chance that the preceding layer cracks and that little hole in the middle prevents condensation and

while regular use isn't likely to break a plane window they aren't designed to withstand direct damage on April 17th a Southwestern Airlines flight experienced an engine failure and a small fragment of the engine hit a window causing a break the passenger next to that window was partially sucked out and sadly didn't survive another terrifying incident involved a British Airways captain being partially sucked out when a poorly installed cockpit window blew out luckily he got tangled up in the control panel saving his life he was sticking out of the front of the plane for 20 minutes

before the co-pilot could land while the captain survived he was badly injured suffering from frostbite caused by the High Altitude winds as horrifying as those stories are plane manufacturers must be improving their safety all the time right well no in fact in in 2022 Boeing threatened to just stop making their 737 line of planes unless they were given exemption from certain safety requirements remember John Barnett the Boeing whistleblower according to him oxygen masks are the tip of the iceberg and in some cases Boeing used substandard parts salvaged from scrap bins in their planes oh man

that's so scary I can't breathe and that's not just because I've got a bow air mask bumpy ride turbulence everyone hates it every bump no matter how small hits your brain you're about to die alarm well I have bad news for you turbulence is getting worse and there's nothing Airlines can do about it there are a few different types of turbulence wake turbulence is caused when one plane follows a little too closely behind another thermal turbulence is caused by Rising warm air and towering clouds the we're interested in is clear air turbulence this is the

bumpy turbulence that occurs when there isn't a cloud in the sky it's caused by sudden changes in wind speed and direction known as wind shear typically at Heights greater than 35,000 ft this type of turbulence can be dangerous as unlike other kinds it doesn't show up on onboard equipment and it's getting worse you see as global temperatures begin to rise due to climate change the warmer air caused by CO2 emissions is increasing the frequency of wind shear one study found that wind shear had increased by 15% Between 1979 and 2019 and could potentially triple within

the next few decades while turbulence still isn't likely to cause a crash it is a major cause of Airline injuries as people are tossed about the cabin or hit by Falling luggage turbulence related in injuries and structural plane damage cost Airlines somewhere between 500 million and $1 billion per year good news though this is all only a problem if your plane takes off in the first place you see planes have a more difficult time taking off in warmer climates this is because warm air is less dense and thus generates less lift as global temperatures rise

we can expect more delays hooray now look you can be sitting around on the ground or bumped around in the air your choice the deal with airline food time to answer that ageold question what's the deal with airline food well buckle up because answering that question will also answer why air travel is generally bad yeah seriously it all ties back to the food check out this commercial for boeings 74700 rolled out in 1969 yes this really really is a plane it's almost unrecognizable compared to Modern airliners it's roomy decorative and jeez look at that food

back in the day it wasn't uncommon for planes to feature luxury meals and even piano bars so how do we go from this to this well back in 1938 when air travel was first becoming a major American industry the US formed the Civil Aeronautics board this board was in charge of regulating the new industry and one of its many responsibilities was setting ticket prices that's right Airlines couldn't charge whatever they wanted instead tickets were priced according to the number of miles traveled along a route so a ticket from New York to LA would always cost

the same amount no matter the airline as Airlines couldn't compete based on price they instead had to compete with customer satisfaction thus every Airline tried to offer the nicest food the roomiest seats the hottest crew is the reason your grandpa calls this era the Golden Age of air travel however this came to an end in 1978 with the airline deregulation act which heavily deregulated the industry suddenly Airlines could now charge whatever they wanted and began competing for who could offer the lowest prices people Express flies to New York for $59 off peak $79 Peak a

bargain like this only comes along 10 times a day this inevitably started a race to the bottom um well bad choice of words for airplane talk with lower ticket prices Airlines cut costs wherever else they could and food quality was one of the first victims Airlines no longer had the desire or money to provide luxury meals or piano bars some issues we've already discussed arose after the deregulation act now to be fair the deregulation Act is responsible for air travel in the United States getting cheaper however since then many airlines merged and raised prices back

up anyway still if crummy airline food is getting you down you can always smuggle your own on board I for instance always hide a Ziploc bag of spaghetti in my bags when I FL my spaghetti no once again I'd like to thank War Thunder for making this video possible if you want to enjoy the most immersive vehicle combat game on the market click on the link in the pinned comment below to download War Thunder for free on PC PlayStation and Xbox you'll also receive a massive Bonus Pack filled with vehicles and other goodies whether you're

a new or returning player who hasn't played for at least 6 months on me well those were some Airline and airplane facts that have made me nervous to fly ever again what about you though are you still unfazed or are you a little more more cautious let me know down in the comments and thanks for watching [Music]