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What is the mist coming out of the top of the plane?

He explained, it is really nothing more than the very cold air coming out of the air conditioning forcing the air to release it's moisture. He reiterated that it happens all the time when flying and out of hot and humid locations and crews are looking to cool off the aircraft.



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As the airplane's engines release exhaust gases, moisture vapor is released as well. The cold temperature and low air pressure at high altitudes forces this moisture to condense, which creates the characteristic white smoke trail for which airplanes have become widely known.

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They may not be chemtrails, but contrails can affect our climate via radiative forcing, disrupting the balance between the sun's incoming solar radiation and the heat being emitted from the Earth's surface. In other words, persistent contrail clouds can trap heat in the atmosphere.

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While fuel dumps don't happen every day, they're also not uncommon. Nor do they usually represent a major emergency. In fact if an aircraft is taking the time to dump fuel before landing, that's likely an indication that the issue forcing the plane to land is serious but not critical.

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Answer: No. The cabin is pressurized between 6,000 and 8,000 feet on long flights. Adding supplemental oxygen is not necessary, because the percentage of oxygen is the same as being on the ground at those altitudes. Question: Why can't airplane vents go into recirculation mode like an automobile?

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The simple answer is yes, pilots do, and are allowed to sleep during flight but there are strict rules controlling this practice. Pilots would only normally sleep on long haul flights, although sleep on short haul flights is permitted to avoid the effects of fatigue.

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If the aircraft tried to land without dumping the fuel first, it is considered an overweight landing attempt and could place immense stress on the airframe. It could also increase the risk of fire and fuel leaking onto the tarmac.

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These clouds are contrails, short for condensation trails. Water vapor is one of the byproducts of jet fuel combustion and will turn into ice crystals in the cold air at the high elevations where jet airplanes fly. Those ice crystals create a cloud (the contrail), which does not pose any public health risk.

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If an airplane produces black smoke from the engines, that means, the combustion in the flame tube is incomplete.

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Some aircraft damage from lightning strikes includes broken lighting and windows, deformed antenna placements, and onboard electronics malfunctions. Other abnormalities or warnings on the flight deck, such as cabin air pressurization problems or false alarms, can occur after your airplane has been struck by lightning.

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