Why do stewards keep their hands behind their backs when passengers get on the plane?

Why do stewards keep their hands behind their backs when passengers get on the plane?

Of course, you have noticed that stewardesses keep their hands behind their backs while you are welcomed onto the plane, but do you know why this is happening? Before departure, the stewardesses always use this type of pose, and the reason is very important and very interesting, it transmitsgraphy. In fact, in those moments they do a great job.

Before departure, the stewardesses always use this type of pose, and the reason is very important and very interesting, it transmitsgraphy.

In fact, they do a big job right now. They count the passengers.

Their hand palms have a kind of numbering that serves them to count all the passengers who have landed on the plane so that their number can adjust to that in aircraft documents.

In certain cases this count can help stewardess with the weight that a plane carries, and if it is necessary to distribute weight on an even aircraft to preserve the balloon.

But why is this hidden from passengers? The reason is very simple, aircraft personnel do not want to prevent passengers or get attention to “unnecessary”.

 

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