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Pilot goes viral for revealing real reason you need to set your phone to airplane mode before flying [Video]

When flight attendants remind you to switch to airplane mode on your phone, you may want to listen.

In a viral video garnering nearly 900,000 views on TikTok, an airline pilot and U.S. Army veteran who posts under the username @perchpoint discloses the real reason that passengers need to activate the setting.

He revealed why toggling to airplane mode before an aircraft takes off “is not a conspiracy.”

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“If you forget to put your phone in airplane mode, no, it’s not the end of the world [and] the plane will not fall out of the sky, and it won’t even mess with the systems on board,” he said in the video. 

“However, it does have the potential to mess with the headsets,” he said. 

He went on to say that a flight with 70 to 150 passengers or more on board can still be affected — …

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