FROM YAHOO NEWS................Not sure if this is 100% accurate?

Dim lights are meant to prepare you for evacuation, not sleep.
"When a plane is landing at night, they dim the interior lights incase you need to evacuate upon landing... your eyes are already adjusted to the darkness so you'll be able to see better once outside the plane.

You can unlock a lavatory from the outside.
"You are able to unlock airplane lavatories from the outside. There is usually a lock mechanism concealed behind the no smoking badge on the door. Just lift the flap up and slide the bolt to unlock.

You're breathing engine air.
"The air you breathe on an airplane is actually compressed air taken from the engines. A large portion (25% to 50%) is blown in the flightdeck, the rest is for the passengers. The air leaves the airplane via a small hole in the back of the fuselage.

Those blankets have NOT been washed. Also, there's a solid chance your tray table has poo on it.
"I worked for Southwest as a flight attendant. Those blankets and pillows? Yeah, those just get refolded and stuffed back in the bins between flights. Only fresh ones I ever saw were on an originating first flight in the morning in a provisioning city. Also, if you have ever spread your peanuts on your tray and eaten, or really just touched your tray at all, you have more than likely ingested baby poo. I saw more dirty diapers laid out on those trays than food. And those trays, yeah, never saw them cleaned or sanitized once.

The captain is allowed to arrest you mid-flight.
The captain has almost limitless authority when the doors are closed. He is allowed to arrest people, write fines and even take the will of a dying passenger.

You can be upgraded to first class after takeoff.
"Yes, we can upgrade you to business class or first class after the airplane's doors close. No, we don't do it very often, partly because on some airlines we have to file a report explaining why we did it, partly because there has to be a meal for you and partly because the forward cabins are often full. Who do we upgrade? Not the slob who's dressed in a dirty tank top. It helps if you're extremely nice, well dressed, pregnant, very tall, good looking, one of our friends or all of the above." --Anonymous flight attendant.

Pilots fall asleep while they're flying.
"Between 43 and 54 percent of pilots surveyed in the U.K., Norway, and Sweden admitted to having fallen asleep while flying a passenger plaPeople steal the lifejackets.
"People take those life jackets, located under or between your seat, as souvenirs. It's a vile and punishable offense, and while airlines do check each seat at the start of every day, a plane could make several trips in a day, during any one of which a passenger could steal a life vest. So, I learned, it's a good idea to check if the life jacket is indeed there." --George Hobica, airline expert.


There are hold-on handles in case flight attendants get shoved off the plane.
"Next time you get on a plane, take note of the handles by the door, just inside the plane. What on earth are those for? Correct, they're grab handles, but why? Well, in a panicked emergency evacuation, when the flight attendants are manning the exit door, passengers, in their mad rush to get off, have a tendency to push them out of the way, sometimes all the way down the slide. The handles are there to make sure that the flight attendants stay on the plane if that's what they need to do." --George Hobica, airline expert.

You can ask for the whole can of Coke.
"If you've got a thirst that's going to take more than a few tablespoons of soda to quench, consider politely asking your flight attendant for the whole can. Most of the time, they're happy to oblige." --Beth Blair, former flight attendant.

Those masks only give you 15 minutes of air (kinda).
"If the oxygen masks drop down, you only have about 15 minutes of oxygen from the point of pulling them down. However, that is more than enough time for the pilot to take us to a lower altitude where you can breathe normally.

Flight attendants sometimes withhold your dinner, hoping you'll fall asleep.
"On night flights, we sometimes hold off on meal service as long as we can so that you'll be asleep and we'll have less to do." --Anonymous flight attendant.

You shouldn't even TOUCH plane water.
"Do not EVER drink water on an aircraft that did not come from a bottle. Don't even TOUCH IT. The reason being the ports to purge lavatory sh*t and refill the aircraft with potable water are within feet from each other and sometimes serviced all at once by the same guy.

Pilots get served separate meals in case one makes them sick.
“Two pilots are served different meals and cannot share, this is done in case of food poisoning.

Your flight attendants probably aren't following cell phone rules.
"My sister is a flight attendant, she says after she tells everyone to turn off all electronics, she goes to the back and pulls our her phone and starts texting.

I can believe most of these. Some are just common sense. I assume every object in public is contaminated. Even if most public surfaces were disinfected daily that means dozens, hundreds, or thousands have touched it before I got there.

Oh Lord, where do I start with this? After 33 yrs.....needed a good laugh today though!

Dim lights: yep
Unlock the lav: Yep
Air source: depends on airplane
Blankets: Yep
Captain allowed to do what????? Arrest you? detain you yep and can get you arrested....make a will???? I ain't no stinkin' lawyer!
First upgrade: yeah...depends on seats and F/A
Sleeping pilots: Take the fifth!
Life Jackets: never saw that but....
Handles: well....not quite for that reason
O2: at least
Water: Not NO but HELL NO
Pilot meals different?: Are you kidding me? we ate what was left over if anything!
F/A cell use: I was in front...they are in back so who knows what they do....

And y'all still get on airplanes!!!!!!!!!!

I always wonder, has anyone ever actually made use of the under seat cushions and life rafts all flights carry ? Tempted to ask, but would probably get the same response as using the B word.

Grizz

I have a health professional friend that wipes down everything in reach of her seat with disinfectant wipes whenever she flys. Maybe she's not over the top after reading this.

Mark

Planes are simply winged disease factories. You will be exposed to every bug and virus that each one of the 140-ish + passengers is carrying.

Even better: I book 40+ flights a year…and I work in healthcare. Yep, I not only visit the ER and hospital rooms…I then get back on a plane to go home.

If I'm not getting the bug via the plane ride, then I'm sure going to get it via the hospital. And woe be to anyone on that same flight as me!

Mark:

I'm going to start!

This is news?

This right up there with the stories about all the contaminants that are found on money.

A big who cares...yes plane water tastes horrible but the explanation is absurd. Kinda like saying:

Did you know the maintenance man who fixes the toilets at work is the same one who works on the water cooler and he might do it on the same day and that the water lines are next to the sewer lines in your building.

My pilot friends are rarely sick...... Attribute it to a built up immune system.....

i suppose if this list bothers you- you should stay home!

To all those scared. Raise your dresses high and run around screaming!!!!!!!
To all those with common sense.
A study done in Germany, late 70's early 80's, they took a farm boy and raised him in a sterile enviroment. He became allergic to a lot of things and was chronically sick.
The doctors came to the conclusion, that it would've been better had they moved the cow into the house with the lad.