A video showing the consequences of a plane stall has sparked a new fear among people.
The footage reveals the unnerving situation in the cockpit when the crew hears the warning alarm and realizes the plane is descending.
This has left viewers reconsidering their feelings towards air travel.
'New fear unlocked' after video showing what happens when a plane stalls.
In the cockpit video, a calm man is flying the plane while his co-pilot gives advice. Then, a complicated system starts loudly saying "stall, stall" and there is a ringing alarm.
The noise is very loud, like a car crash, as the engines try hard to keep the plane up in the air.
Fortunately, the pilot stayed calm and fixed the problem carefully, without causing panic.
But people on social media say that the "scary" video has made a strong impression on them. It has made them afraid to fly in the near future. Some shared their fears, while others made funny comments about it.
Stalling a plane is very different from stalling a car.
It happens when the wings of the plane are at a certain angle, called the angle of attack, and this angle becomes too big.
The air flowing over the shaped wings creates a lift that keeps the plane up in the sky.
But when the angle of attack gets too big, the airflow gets disturbed, and the lift decreases. This is called a stall.
If the pilots don't fix a stall quickly, the plane can start to go down. The controls of the plane may feel slow because of changes in the airflow, which is a sign for the pilots.
If a stall happens early, they can fix it by pushing the plane's nose down to reduce the angle. However, stalls during takeoff or landing are more dangerous because losing lift can make the plane fall.
Remarkably, any fixed-wing aircraft can experience a stall, and warning systems are in place to prevent or alert pilots to such dangers.
Routine pilot training, complete non-story, the stall was induced, they don't simply happen by accident. Turbulence is completely different, one user said.
So passengers don't actually know what it takes to be a pilot, or what their training involves? I guess they don't know that about driving a bus either. but they still get on, the second user commented.
If you learn to fly a part of the PPL is learning how to handle a stall so nothing unusual. What is more concerning is a stall with a wing drop, the aircraft doesn't tip down level but goes on it's s, another wrote.
On jet planes before a plane has its lift speed in the air lost [stall, for laymen means "fall"], and any audio alert has been triggered on the flightdeck, the flight controls column will shake alert, someone explained.
