This is what happens when something scary goes bump in the flight.

While air travel is still one of the safest modes of transport, some flight-eningly common issues can occur in the air.

In fact, the Conversation writes that in-flight “technical issues” are part and parcel of flying the friendly skies and airplanes are equipped with layers of redundancy measures and warning systems to alert pilots, who train extensively to handle in-flight fiascos. 5

This way, said technical issues generally result in travel delays instead of tragedies.

As a service to flyers, the publication recently ranked the most common “scary-sounding” failures that people might experience and how crew members handle them at 30,000 feet.

Air conditioning and pressurization issues 5

As people couldn’t

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