Unusual Plane Facts

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Subscribe to Talltanic http://goo.gl/wgfvrr 27. One in five people has a fear or phobia of flying. Also known as "aviophobia." The risk of being killed in a plane crash is about one in eleven million in America alone. You have a high chance of being killed in a car accident. Which is one out of five thousand. 26. Did you know? The oxygen on an airplane's emergency masks, actually only last for about fifteen minutes. 25. In order to become a pilot, you must have 20/20 vision with or without corrective lenses. 24. Did you know? Research has been done, and shows that the first few minutes after take off, and the last eight minutes before landing are when eighty percent of plane crashes take place. 23. Did you know? That Plane exhaust kills more people than plane crashes. Over ten thousand people are killed annually from toxic pollutants from airplanes alone! 22. Weird Fact? Most pilots and copilots are not allowed to eat the same food before the flight on major airlines. This is to avoid food poisoning and affecting the entire flight crew. 21. Airplane wings are one component of many to operate an airplane. There are actually four different forces that allow the plane to go up, down, forward and for slowing it down. The four forces of flight consist of thrusting, drag, and weight. 20. Did you know? Turbulence is not only caused by storms, other planes, and air passing over the mountains. Jet streams and rising hot air, also causes Turbulence on a flight. 19. Airlines save 40,000 dollars by removing one olive from each salad served to the first class members alone. 18. A woman and daughter were arrested when the woman tried smuggling her dead husband onto a plane. They put him in a wheelchair and covered his eyes with sunglasses, and told authorities that he was sleeping. 17. Did you know? Airline blankets are washed every five to thirty days? 16. Sixty percent of tray tables collect "superbugs" 15. During emergency landings, pilots are capable of deciding to dump fuel from its wings. It is not common, but it is a safe procedure to keep the plane from being too full to land. The fuel ends up evaporating before it touches the ground. 14. The C-5 is one of the longest airplanes to exist. It is a military aircraft that is longer than six stories in length. 13. About 43 and 54 percent of pilots in the United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden had admitted to falling asleep while flying a plane full of passengers. One-third of the pilots mentioned that when they woke up, they caught their copilots also sleeping. 12. Did you know? If you sit further than five rows away from any exit on an airplane, statistically you are less likely to exit an airplane during an on flight emergency. 11. Neil Armstrong carried a piece of the first airplane, The Wright Flyer, with him to the moon. 10. A 66-year-old man attempted to smuggle cocaine on an airplane, via his broken leg cast. They cast was made out of the drug. He purposefully broke his leg in case airport authorities caught him. They found other sources of cocaine in his luggage, leading them to test the cast. Causing him to get caught. 9. Did you know? All flight controllers and pilots who fly internationally are required to speak English? English just so happens to be the international language of flight. 8. If an airplane door ever opened during mid flight at a high altitude, the opening could cause items and people to get sucked out. The door being huge makes it impossible for multiple people to even try and open a door during a flight. 7. Did you know? One windshield or window frame on an airplane's cockpit can cost as much as a BMW. Currently used on all Boeing 747-400's. 6. The control tower at the airport has to be angled fifteen degrees from vertical to decrease the reflections from inside and outside the tower. 5. Airplane found in the woods that turned into a man’s new home! 4. The air on an airplane is filtered by the same technology that filters air in hospitals. Making the air incredibly clean. 3. Did you know? Most pilots use autopilot during most major flights. The computer technology can make better adjustments on a flight which also leads to more fuel efficiencies. Autopilot is generally not used for takeoff or landing, even though it is an available option. 2. The Boeing 767 is so powerful, that it can suck enough air through its engine, that it could actually fill a Good Year Blimp in approximately seven seconds. 1.One time, a woman tried to smuggle a baby tiger onto the airplane. She sedated it and put it in a suitcase with other stuffed animals. Unfortunately the animal bones came up during the X-Ray, leading her to get in a lot of trouble.