“I can be your hero baby” – Enrique Englasias
We all like to imagine someone like Enrique springing to our heroic rescue in a mid-air emergency. However, less glamorously, it’s simple safety procedures that would really be your hero, baby. Hence the real reasons for those takeoff and touchdown adjustments.
Airlines are invested in keeping people calm and happy, rather than jittery and nauseous, and so all these are kept on the DL.
28. Those lights aren’t dimmed for mood lighting
You can’t beat a bit of mood lighting- even a T-shirt thrown over a lamp boosts an evening automatically from a 5 to a 7 on the ambience scale. However, there’s a much less romantic reason for the low lighting on planes…
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The lights are dimmed for night time landings so your eyes are adjusted to the dark, in case you have to leave the plane in a hurry.
