Passengers clapping after landing

[Pushka]

The pilot talked about surviving the storm, or surviving the teenage girls?

Yeah. I was thinking that was why everyone clapped too!

 

[burmans]

One landing in WLG got a clap!

I’m a Wellingtonian by birth, can tell you that when that wind is howling, clapping is quite common in WLG and for good reason.

 

[anat0l]

Clapping on landing seems rather common in Latin America.

I know several here are firmly against it and would in fact ridicule or think less of anyone who does (in jest or seriously).

I wasn't on the flight, but the QF30 incident that was diverted to Manila. A video showed the cabin all clapping when they finally touched down. I don't normally clap but I would be far from criticising anyone for doing so if they did on that landing.

I don't know if the pilots can hear it at all. What kind of noise does it take to be heard through a coughpit door?

 

[AuSammy]

I don't know if the pilots can hear it at all. ?

That was answered somewhere on AFF. Yes on 380 but no on other planes

 

[Aeryn]

Only experienced clapping in Central and South America plus Carribean (basically Latino countries). I used to find it unnerving like those local passengers were surprised we landed safely (whereas for me that is expected).

 

[anat0l]

Only experienced clapping in Central and South America plus Carribean (basically Latino countries). I used to find it unnerving like those local passengers were surprised we landed safely (whereas for me that is expected).

The way I see it is possibly a safely thing that you allude to, maybe a hark back to days when pilots might have commandeered the plane more like a cowboy pilot or in a region where planes / flights were not known to have a good safety record.

Maybe it's a "thank you" to the pilots which has become somewhat ritualistic, like a less reverant equivalent of Islamic carriers beginning their flights with a prayer to Allah.

In any case, this is why I can't find it in myself to ridicule or deride anyone who does clap on a plane's landing.

 

[Forg]

Maybe it's a "thank you" to the pilots which has become somewhat ritualistic

I believe that Sydney’s smile+nod+wave to the bus-driver, when exiting the bus, is considered as weird globally as applauding when the ‘plane lands is to us …