These 30 Pilots And Flight Attendants Confess The Best Kept Secrets About Flying

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6. #4 is wrong, to my understanding...

Captains have NO arrest powers or legal authority...They do however have the power to have anyone removed from a flight for any reason...

#12: Bag locks are useless...If some baggage guy wants to go through your stuff, he's going to go through your stuff...The important thing is to never put anything of value in checked baggage (or if you absolutely must, make sure you have enough insurance to cover the loss)

#17: The pilot says turning off electronics is totally useless, but in the next sentence complains about communications signal interference with ATC?? Which one is it? (FWIW, the FAA is revising that policy and will probably drop it altogether in the near future)

#19: Isn't this common knowledge? All anyone has to do is look out the window from the terminal and watch how they work...

#24: Given the modern tech and redundancy in modern jets, a *double* engine failure at cruise is a very, very remote possibility...

#25: NOBODY flies 60-year-old airframes anymore...I mean come on now...

#27: Hot locations don't make that much of a difference...Hot locations plus high elevation are another story, though

#29: This makes no sense...An airport knows well in advance that a flight has been hijacked; no 'secret signal' with the flaps is needed...