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DEBUNKED: 10 Airplane Myths That People Still Believe
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| 09/24/13
| Alex Davies
Posted on 09/26/2013 12:03:19 PM PDT by oxcart
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3. You get drunk faster at cruising altitude.
4. Planes dump human waste while in air.
5. You can get stuck on a plane toilet if you flush while sitting down.
6. Recirculated air in planes spreads disease.
7. Wearing your seat belt can hurt your chances of surviving a plane crash.
8. Pilots can control airflow to keep passengers sedated and save on fuel.
9. Oxygen masks are decoys, meant to keep passengers calm before a crash.
10. You have no chance of surviving a plane crash.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:03:19 PM PDT
by
oxcart
To: oxcart
11. Flying is safer than driving
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:05:27 PM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: oxcart
It isn't. When the plane is at cruising altitude, it's pressurized. That pressure means that getting a door open would require superhuman strength. While that might be true, it's a sorry,sorry explanation.
The pressure is on the INSIDE, pushing OUT. It's not a far stretch to think that the pressure would HELP you open the door, not hinder you.
To explain it by saying that "it's pressurized" shows a complete lack of understanding of the problem.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:07:17 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: qam1
12. An airplane hit the pentagon.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:07:17 PM PDT
by
MNDude
To: oxcart
12. Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar!’ will make the plane crash............
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:07:58 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: oxcart; a fool in paradise
12. Objects heavier than air can’t fly.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:08:23 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Izzy Dunne
Do the doors open ‘IN’ or ‘OUT’?.....
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:09:02 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: oxcart
“9. Oxygen masks are decoys, meant to keep passengers calm before a crash.
ROFLMAO!!! I LOVE that one!
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:10:05 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
To: qam1
Flying is FUN !
Especially take-offs, and rough landings.
LOVE those in air "drops" (don't know what you call them ... but your gizzard slides up into your brain)
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:10:38 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: oxcart
3. You get drunk faster at cruising altitude. #3 is true, but only because the stews can bring the drinks faster.
/johnny
To: Red Badger
First in, then out. They are complicated little gadgets.
/johnny
To: EveningStar
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:11:51 PM PDT
by
oxcart
(Journalism [sic])
To: Izzy Dunne
Airplane doors are designed such that they have to be pulled inwards (into the cabin), then rotated, and then pushed out the hatch.
The article is correct.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:12:11 PM PDT
by
kidd
(No blood for ego)
To: Red Badger
14- don’t eat the fish. Have the lasagna.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:12:13 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Make today a great day. Insult a liberal.)
To: oxcart
10. You have no chance of surviving a plane crash. After the crash landing of Asiana Flight 214, it seemed incredible that 304 of 307 people on board survived. But that's in line with numbers from the National Transportation Safety Board, which show that 95% of passengers involved in accidents on US carriers between 1983 and 2000 survived.
A little misleading. Most of these are botched LANDINGS OR TAKEOFFS, where the plane is still relatively close to the ground. A failure from cruising altitude or with several hundred feet of altitude is almost impossible to survive, even over water.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:12:35 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: CodeToad
I don't know about that...It got Dennis Hopper kind of hopped up.
To: kidd
Airplane doors are designed such that they have to be pulled inwards (into the cabin), then rotated, and then pushed out the hatch. So why wouldn't a writer, trying to explain why it won't happen, point that out?
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:13:52 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
It's not a far stretch to think that the pressure would HELP you open the door, not hinder you. Assuming you don't notice that airplane doors are designed to open inward then rotate to the outside. You would have to overcome the pressure to open the door inward before you could push it to the outside.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:14:14 PM PDT
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: EQAndyBuzz
14- dont eat the fish. Have the lasagna. ROTFL!
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:14:34 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.)
To: oxcart
I have it on good authority that #4 is not a myth.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:14:40 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(A rainbow curtain has descended upon the west, from Munich to San Francisco.)
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