30 Pilots And Flight Attendants Confess The Best Kept Secrets You Don’t Know About Flying

24. Planes without engines can still glide for a really long time.

A pilot told me if both engines fail, a plane can glide 6 nautical miles for every 5,000 feet. So at 35,000 feet, a plane can glide about 42 miles without power. Its why most accidents happen landing or taking off.