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Apart from the fact that traveling by air is way more expensive than traveling by land ,what else do you know ?

We would be looking at some interesting facts about air travel you probably never knew .

1.
Sydney (Australia) to Dallas (US) is the world longest flight by distance ,about 13,810 Km.

2.
Pilots and Co-pilots eat different meals to reduce the chances of both of them being poisoned at the same time.

3.
A commercial flight flies at an average speed of 800 Km/h

4.
A Boeing 747 is made up of about 6 million parts !

5.
One third of all the airports in the world are in the USA.

6.
The first aircraft landed in Nigeria on November 1, 1925.

It involved three De Havilland DH 9A aircraft belonging to the Royal Air Force, RAF.

7.
According to planecrashinfo.com there has been about 1104 accidents from the beginning of 1960 till the end of 2015 !.

No form accident is something to be happy about ,but this is quite encouraging considering the fact that road accidents in Nigeria every year is well over 11,ooo (2016).

8.
Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) was built during World War II. Chai !

9.
KLM is the world oldest airline ,it was established in 1919.

10.
Approximately 10 million people make use of Murtala Muhammed Airport every year.

11.
An average Boeing 747 has about 240-289 Kilometers of wiring.

12.
The Boeing 777 outputs well over 110,000 horsepower . Thats approximately the combined horsepower of about 80 Bugatti Chiron(2017 model)

Wheew !

That was quite enlightening

Hope you learnt something .

We would love to hear from you.

By Donald3d

https://autojosh.com/12-facts-air-travel-know/

Informative!


(Number 2 though)



Nice one O.P

educative n informative. op, kudos

Nice one.

And Airbus A380 remains the biggest passenger plane on earth

GodwinDuke:
And Airbus A380 remains the biggest passenger plane on earth

And the world's largest cargo/heaviest aircraft is Antonov An225

Lalasticlala

Highly informative

Op , you can lie how can you say the first aircraft that landed in Nigeria was in 1925 and that the oldest airline is KLM. where do you put Benin airways and Edo Airline they have been travelling for meetings since time immemorial . i believe their own average speed will be like 5000 km/Min Lol

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Goahead:
And the world's largest cargo/heaviest aircraft is Antonov An225

chai...................... Hope this plan will transport like 5million Nigerian to London at the same time to search for our missing president

ok

Good

See Number 5.

Nigeria was once great but today ? Today, I weep for my dear country.

Up Nigeria airways, soaring higher and higher to greater heights, making the nation proud

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Nice, please tell us some about ocean travel

Dear Sir, that your first fact is very wrong, the longest flight in the world is from Doha to Auckland with a total distance of 14,535km(9,032 miles)

6,7,8 and 10 are no fact bro.

Nigeria no get fact.
Take note

OP youve left car matter. Na plane you come face now?

planeJosh, the nairalander formerly known as autojosh

Cool

Cockpit! May roasted fall on them

It one of the safest means of transportation.

;Dwat an informative informant

Abeg what are the things to know about traveling by land? . E.g Lagos to Ekiti

Informative

GodwinDuke:
And Airbus A380 remains the biggest passenger plane on earth

Has anyone entered this one? Please share your experience

Approximately 10 million people make use of Murtala Muhammed Airport every year.
Thats really low a country of 180M


What about Edo Airways
Midnight flight only