Passenger kicked off flight for farting isn’t to blame – plane travel makes you more gassy
AFTER a plane was forced to make an emergency landing over a passenger who kept farting, we had to ask - does flying make you extra windy?
As Sun Online reported two days ago, a Transavia flight was grounded over a brawl over a passenger loudly breaking wind.
But the flight crew were less than sympathetic and when the man allegedly continued to guff without any attempt to hold back, a bust-up started.
The pilot of the Dutch low-cost airline Transavia Airlines flight decided to make an emergency landing at Vienna airport in Austria after tensions escalated.
But maybe the passenger needs a bit of sympathy.
Flying has a number of effects on the body – your ears pop, your taste goes and you get drunk quicker - but the most antisocial problem is the increased number of farts the average passenger lets out.
So why do people fart more on planes and what can you do to limit your gas?
Jacob Rosenberg, a clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen says it is all down to the cabin pressure dropping.
He made the discovery after noticing that his stomach had become bloated on a long-haul flight to New Zealand.
After clocking that his empty water bottle had expanded during the flight, then crumpled when it came back down to earth, he realised that the same could apply to his stomach.
He told: “The pressure drops and the air must expand into more space.”
According to Jacob, the gas sitting inside the stomach then expands by 30 per cent… and it needs to go somewhere.
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There are ways to limit the amount you gross people out though.
By eating more carbohydrates and less fibre at the airport and on the plane, you can limit your bloating.
Flight attendants also suffer from the problem, as The Sun revealed recently, cabin crew regularly perform aisle checks as an excuse to fart, which they call “crop-dusting.”