10 popular myths about airplanes
Despite all the efforts of designers passenger planes flying even on the most comfortable and expensive places continue to be a serious challenge for both health and for the human psyche. It is not surprising that talk about flying a lot of stuff.
1. Accidentally open the door during flight represents a mortal danger.
Actually, this is true. Open door will cause cabin depressurization, with all its consequences. That's just to open the door during flight under force unless Superman. Therefore, if any of the passengers suddenly inadequate attempts to open the door, then everyone else to worry about. The only consequence of this silly antics is noise and fuss associated with subduing Brawler. A sealing doors while not quite hurt.
2. Passengers can "suck" overboard even through the smallest gap in the body of the aircraft.
For rapid decompression, which may be followed substantial destruction airframe need to explode a bomb in the cabin or open fire. Small slits may cause a slow decompression, and crew time to take the necessary measures to save the aircraft and its passengers.
3. Intoxication at high altitude is faster.
Team American popular science program "MythBusters" specifically put "experiment" to get the data, as they say, "first hand." As expected, the level of alcohol in the blood while having a drink on the ground and at a height were the same. But in a small hypoxia exposure undergone by people flying in an airplane, you can really get drunk faster. Sometimes people unaccustomed to fly, can feel a bit unpleasant intoxication, even if they did not drink any alcoholic beverages.
4. Content toilets thrown straight into the air.
This is the perfect fudge. Modern aircraft onboard toilets cleaned only on the ground.
5. If you click on the sink, sitting on the toilet, and you can get stuck there.
This is also nonsense. Even a very fat man is not able to create his own body as a sealed tube, it became necessary to pressure the difference. However, doing so is not recommended, but only for reasons of hygiene. Mikrobryzgi that will inevitably fall on the surface of the body, will not bring any benefit.
6. Circulation of air in the sealed cabin leads to the spread of infectious diseases.
Cabin, of course, permanently sealed. Yet the plane - it is not a submarine, and the air in it is constantly updated with fresh portions. Before you move to a new range of air necessarily passes through the entire filter system. Aircraft manufacturers claim that these filters can neutralize up to 99% of bacteria in the air. That's just, unfortunately, diseases are caused not only bacteria but also viruses that easily pass through any filters. Furthermore, pathogens can reside on any surface seat tables walls etc. Serious and expensive salon disinfection after each flight, of course, impossible to carry out. In short, a closed cabin space, crammed with many different people - it's not a spa resort.
7. Seat belt can prevent the survival in a crash.
Of course, there is some probability that a person can not escape from the belt to quickly leave the plane. But the likelihood that a person will remain alive thanks to the belt, disproportionately. The design of the protective agent is constantly being improved, and there are plenty of tests to confirm its effectiveness, so ignore the seat belt on the plane - its madness.
8. Pilots can reduce oxygen content in the cabin, passengers to enter into a sleepy state.
All pilots who asked this question, together called the idea is nonsense.
9. Oxygen masks are dummies, designed to prevent panic.
That's not true. In fact, once the face was an oxygen mask, put her need instantly, without hesitation. Anoxia develops very rapidly and leads to a marked deceleration of all reactions. Therefore, if we consider the appropriateness of the mask and think about its application, it is possible to lose a precious moment, and no longer have time to use it.
10. Survive in a plane crash almost impossible.
Catastrophe catastrophe strife. Today is a very frequent messages about the miraculous rescue of absolutely hopeless situations, and the loss of the aircraft, when it seemed that there were no signs of the tragedy. Statistics U.S. National Council for Transport Safety argues that the incidents occurred during passenger flights from 1983 to 2000, 95% of the passengers survived. I would like to believe it. After all, as the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, there are "lies, blatant lies, and statistics."
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