Turbulence can really shake things up – in a relaxing way – during a flight, according to the latest flight crew member to leak the information.
Flight attendant Barbie – aka Barbiebac.ok on TikTok – revealed in a now-viral video that some of the crew actually love it when the plane hits a bit of a bumpy ride.
Barbie, who is originally from Argentina but is currently based in Italy, revealed that the scary moments for passengers actually give taxed workers a chance to rest.
“The flight attendants love the turbulence – because we can have a little rest as we have to stay seated and we can’t get up to provide the food, for example,” said the 29-year-old, just one of several flight attendants who are racking up millions of views on amid Americans’ frustration with air travel after flight cancellations, delays and baggage problems.
“Sometimes flight attendants and pilots don’t tell the whole truth to passengers,” Barbie, who asked not to reveal her last name or airline for privacy reasons, told NeedToKnow.Online. “They do this to not scare them and to prevent a potentially dangerous situation during the flight. When you’re in the sky, there’s no way out, so you have to minimize the risks.”
The sky spy – who regularly posts to his 3.4 million followers about common myths about air travel – also revealed that the black box used to record cockpit conversations is not actually black, but orange.
According to the flight attendant, whenever a plane goes through turbulence, it gives the workers an opportunity to sit down and rest. Jam Press/@barbiebac.ok “The flight attendants love the turbulence because we can rest a bit as we have to stay seated and we can’t get up to provide the food, for example,” said the 29-year-old. Jam Press/@barbiebac.ok
“For some reason, everyone thinks that the black box on the plane is actually black, but I have to tell you that’s not true. The color is actually orange and there’s a reason,” Barbie revealed.
“The color orange is not a fad, this color was chosen to be easy to find on the ground or in the sea in case of an accident.”
The Argentine is far from the first flight professional to reveal secrets about the airline industry.
A Boeing 747 pilot recently revealed where human excrement goes when people flush it down the plane’s toilet.
“Did you know that every time you flush the toilet on an airplane, it doesn’t actually get flushed down into the population down there?” Dallas, Texas-based Garrett, 29, asked in his current No. 2, which garnered a whopping 4.2 million views. “It goes through the plumbing to the back of the aircraft into the seal bays where the ground crew at the destination will remove all that debris.”
The flight attendant, who regularly posts about the myths of air travel, also revealed that the black box used to record cockpit conversations is not actually black, but orange. Jam Press/@barbiebac.ok
Arizona-based airline employee Tommy Cimato also went viral after revealing what the number of “rings” emitted during a flight meant.
“If you only hear one tone, it means a passenger is calling one of the flight attendants from their seat or they may be calling us from the toilet,” explained the popular TikTok star in the skies. “If you hear three of those high-low bells, it means it’s an emergency, but you should never hear that.”
A third flight attendant, Brenda Orelus, revealed that the dirtiest place on the plane is not the bathroom, but the seatback pocket.
“Did you know seatback pockets are the dirtiest surface on the plane?” revealed the flight attendant known as Flight Bae B! on TikTok. “They’re dirtier than toilets, they’re dirtier than seat cushions, and they’re dirtier than tray tables.”
Orelus continued, “That’s because they never get cleaned. Unless someone vomits or something sticky, gooey, pus comes out, it’s not cleaned.”
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