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airplane facts: Some planes can fly for more than five hours after one of their engines goes out.
airplane facts: If someone dies on your flight, their body might stay in the cabin with you.
airplane facts: In-flight oxygen masks aren't intended to last the whole flight.
airplane facts: Black boxes aren't actually black.
airplane facts: Airplane air is significantly drier than any you might experience on earth.
airplane facts: A Boeing 747 is more fuel efficient than your car.
airplane facts: A hijacker once relinquished control of a flight for beer.
airplane facts: An engineer designed a plane with a detachable cabin to save passengers.
airplane facts: The dirtiest place on the plane isn't the bathroom. As it so happens, the filthiest place on a plane is that tray table you're eating your meal off of. According to a study conducted by TravelMath, tray tables hosted 2,155 colony-forming bacterial units (CFU) per square inch. In comparison, the button to flush the toilet had just 265 CFU in the same amount of space.
airplane facts: Dead chickens are thrown into plane jets during safety tests.
airplane facts: There are thousands of planes over the United States at any moment.
airplane facts: Takeoff and landing are the most dangerous times during a flight.
airplane facts: The world's largest airplane weighs nearly 600 tons. The Antonov An-225 has an impressive maximum takeoff weight of 591.7 tons. In comparison, the Boeing 747-8F's maximum takeoff weight is 489,218 pounds less, at 347.091 tons.
airplane facts: The safest seats on an aircraft are those at the back of the plane.
airplane facts: You are about 7 percent of the distance to space during flights.
airplane facts: Airplanes can trigger lightning. When a plane passes through clouds, the static created can actually spur the development of lightning. Fortunately, even if your plane is struck, you're likely pretty safe. There hasn't been a lightning-related plane crash in the United States since 1967, and increasing safety measures have made lightning strikes less dangerous to passengers than ever before. When lightning strikes a plane, the electrical current is evenly distributed throughout the aircraft's conductive aluminum interior, while grounding the plane's interior electrical systems prevents surges that could interfere with its functionality
airplane facts: Airplane blankets aren't always washed between passengers.
airplane facts: A Boeing 747 tank can hold 48,445 gallons of fuel.
airplane facts: Dimming the aircraft's lights serves a purpose beyond sleep. While it's nice to imagine that airlines are simply hoping you'll get in some restful sleep, that's not exactly the truth. In fact, dimming the lights aboard a plane helps passengers' eyes adjust to the dark, an essential component in helping them survive should there be a sudden nighttime evacuation.
airplane facts: Plane exhaust kills more people than plane crashes. According to a study conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, airplane emissions are linked to 8,000 deaths each year. The number of people killed in plane crashes? Less than 1,000.
airplane facts: Plane doors can't actually open in mid-flight.
airplane facts: All pilots who fly internationally must know at least a bit of English.
airplane facts: Pointing a laser pointer at a plane is a serious crime. Drive your pets crazy with a laser pointer all you want, but never aim that annoying red dot at a plane. According to 18 U.S. Code Section 39A, if you point a laser pointer at a plane or its flightpath, you can enjoy up to five years in prison to think about what you've done.
airplane facts: The world's oldest airline will turn 100 in 2019. Dutch airline KLM has the longest continuously operating record in the world. The Amsterdam-based airline's planes have been lifting off and touching down since 1919.
airplane facts: Airplane bathrooms can be opened from the outside. While flipping that latch inside the bathroom that turns the door sign to "occupied" may give you some semblance of privacy, there's an easy way for flight personnel to get in if they need to. Underneath that lavatory sign, there's a switch that allows flight crew to open the door if they're concerned about your safety or the safety of other passengers.
airplane facts: One airline has had no fatal accidents. Despite being in business for nearly a century, Australian airline Qantas has never had a fatal accident involving one of its commercial aircrafts.
airplane facts: There are 140 miles of wiring inside a Boeing 747. According to a report from technology company Tyco Electronics, which manufactures wire connectors for the aviation industry, a 747 can pack 750,000 feet, or 140 miles, of wire inside it, weighing approximately 3,500 pounds in total.
airplane facts: American Airlines saved $40,000 by cutting one ingredient from meals. When attempting to cut costs in the 1980s, American Airlines discovered that removing just one item from passengers' meals would do the trick. By simply nixing just one olive from the salads served in-flight, the airline saved a staggering $40,000 in the course of a single year.
airplane facts: Airplane water is riddled with bacteria. You might want to shell out the extra cash for a ridiculously-overpriced bottle of water at the airport. A report from the Wall Street Journal reveals that bacteria including salmonella and staphylococcus were found in airplane water, in addition to insect eggs. Another study conducted at the University of Limerick found 37 distinct bacterial species in airplane water, with long-haul flights having worse water quality than their short-haul counterparts. (did not know this & gross...)