Flight attendants fart on planes by pretending to perform aisle checks… and they call it ‘crop-dusting’

FLIGHT attendants often seem to possess a super-human quality to be attentive and smiley with passengers several hours into a flight.

But that extra-friendly cabin crew member might not be so hospitable after all… they’re probably just trying to discreetly let out a big fart.

During a flight, crew try not to pass wind in the tiny galley where their colleagues are taking a break.

Instead, they save up their gas and let it out while doing a walk through the cabin.

To do this, they walk slowly up and down the aisle, pretending to check whether the overhead cabins are properly closed and passengers are settled.

The practice is so common among flight attendants that they even have a special word for it – crop-dusting.

Ross McDonagh, a student of airline history, revealed on Quora that flight attendants regularly complained about the excess bloat and gas that they suffer from as part of their job.

So you might want to think twice about calling a crew member in the middle of the night on a flight – they could use the trip as an excuse to let off some steam.

It’s not their fault though – as the Sun Online reported earlier this year, everyone farts more on planes.

In February, the pilot of a Transavia Airlines flight even had to make an emergency landing at Vienna airport in Austria after tensions escalated over a passenger loudly breaking wind.

Jacob Rosenberg, a clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen says it is all down to the cabin pressure dropping.

According to Jacob, the gas sitting inside the stomach then expands by 30 per cent… and it needs to go somewhere.