It feels automatic. Go to the airport, board the plane. It may never have occurred to you that you always board from the left hand side.
And there's a reason for that. Experts say it might even date back centuries to traditional nautical custom.
"Early airports were set up so that aircraft could taxi in front of the terminal and stop to discharge passengers," wrote a former US air force pilot on Quora. "It was useful for the pilot to be able to judge wing clearance from the terminal building and to put the aircraft door in front of the terminal doors. Some early transports had right-side doors into the passenger cabin, but the logic of the pilot's field of view prevailed.
"At some airports, stairs may be placed at forward and/or aft doors, but to avoid passengers wandering around a busy parking ramp, the loading/unloading is always on the same (almost always the aircraft's left) side.
"Also for safety reasons, passenger movement is kept on one side while fuelling is carried out on the other. It is also useful to unload/load baggage and cargo on the opposite side from passenger movement and the loading bridge or stairs."
However, Andrew Stagg, calling himself a commercial pilot on the site, had a different take.
"I believe the reasoning goes back to ships, which have a port (left) and starboard (right) side. The port side was the one you would embark and disembark from, so most airplane and jetway designers followed the same convention.
"While most larger transport category aircraft have two front and two rear exits, the placement of catering trucks and baggage loading equipment on the right, makes using the right doors impractical."

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cos it make sense and saves time to enter your house through the front door than to follow the back door

Educative.... Thanks

Since by convention the pilot sits in the left-hand seat of the aircraft it's much easier for him or her to judge wing clearance if they approach the terminal on the left side

I took it as normal

Much guessing and analysing, definite reason still sketchy. Fueling on the other side and wing clearance judgement do make a lot of sense however.

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This is great.

E no matter jor.. Shebi everyone eventually gets to sit on all sides including close to d engines

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E no matter jor.. Shebi everyone eventually gets to sit on all sides including close to d engines

Shut up mr. man if you have nothing tangible to comment. Try and comprehend the write up and stop spitting shit out of your mouth.

hostine316:


Shut up mr. man if you have nothing tangible to comment. Try and comprehend the write up and stop spitting shit out of your mouth.

What is it with ppl always trying to show how incredibly stupid dey are? U really don't have to prove dat to anyone. D last tym I checked my comment didn't refer to anyone neither did it in anyway dispute d post...

nice...

Hmmmm.....

Move it to the other side and people will still board it.

An I.D.G.A.F. fact

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What is it with ppl always trying to show how incredibly stupid dey are? U really don't have to prove to prove dat to anyone. D last tym I checked my comment didn't refer to anyone neither did it in anyway dispute d post...

Nice

hostine316:


Shut up mr. man if you have nothing tangible to comment. Try and comprehend the write up and stop spitting shit out of your mouth.

Must we always behave this way? So easy to insult people on the internet, stop the abuse of the internet. Besides the guy was only being humourous.

And so?

Bloggers really piss me off with plagiarism. I read this story on one UK paper. What does it take you to credit these sources? spit

There are numerous countless aircrafts with right-wing doors....

The reason most aircraft doors are in left side is because of the wiring

This is very informative.

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Nice Article But No Reference, You Can Be Prosecuted For This

seunlayi:
This is very informative.

Lalasticlala don go church?

and who told u, he's a Christian?

hope you learnt something important