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As you can see on the picture, in many airplanes there is no row 13, it goes from 12 to 14. There’s not much information about how it all started, but apparently it’s because of superstition, a dumb superstition. I’d loved to be there the first time someone refuse to sit on the row 13 because of bad luck, that person is responsible for even nowadays rows jumping from 12 to 14, he must be proud.
I guess if something goes wrong in an airplane, being in any other row besides 13 wont save your ass.Or perhaps it is more susceptible to small accidents like getting vomited or having hot coffee spilled over you, but is this sufficient to eliminate the damn row?
There’s not much info about this on the internet, but sure would love to know the responsible for this. Please tell me if you have any more information about this, or if your grandfather was responsible for this.
Here’s a small transcription of an article i found about it on usatoday.com :
“Most people wouldn’t want to sit there,” says Judy Graham-Weaver, a spokesperson for AirTran. “Whether we believe in the superstition or not if it’s the perception of the community we need to go by that.”
Superstitions vary by culture. Many Japanese avoid the number four because it sounds like the word for death in their language and the word for nine sounds like the word for torture. Japan-based All Nippon Airways omits rows 4, 9 and 13 even though the unlucky reputation of 13 is allegedly based in Christianity and Viking folklore.
Seventeen is considered unlucky in Italy because rearranging the letters in the Roman numerals for 17 could spell “VIXI” which means “I lived” in Italian. Lufthansa airplanes do not have row 13 or 17. You would certainly expect Alitalia airplanes to be missing row 17, but this is not the case. To further confusion, Alitalia’s Boeing 777s have row 13 while the rest of their fleet does not.Many airlines do not offer a flight 13 as well. And the Koreans take superstition one step further as there are no gates 4, 13, or 44 at Seoul’s Inchon Airport.
Now…. is this stupid or what!? am i the only one thinking this?
they usually do, just the seat rows often alternate in smaller planes
All the ones i flew ( they weren’t much) didn’t have, and i guess people don’t notice it much
hotels don’t have a 13th floor either, neither do hospitals.
Just some food for thought: all the people sitting in row 14, that’s really row 13
then why do they call it 14?
It works because most people are stupid.
@ Clarissa,
Hospitals do have a room number 13, but mostly it’s the Morgue
What does it matter if they skip a number, it doesn’t effect you really. Some people have this superstition, let them have it.
But i like the number 13 …and what about me? why cant i sit on row 13?:P
This is becuase most airplanes are made in America, or aim to be used by Americans.
In the USA not not only are they often Christin fundamentalists. but they are also irrationally superstitious about all sorts of things, like the number 13. This is ironic becuase the USA was originally formed by 13 states.
It’s for fun. Jesus fucking Christ people, get a hold of yourself. There aren’t any government agencies blocking objects with 13 in them. There aren’t aliens who hate hte number 13. Bad things don’t happen to 13.
It’s just an old engineering tradition.
As for James M; there are far worse super-stations in other parts of the world besides the USA. Most of our planes are made/produced over seas anyway.
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I was on a plane once and was sitting in row 13. A lady got on and was worried about sitting there…I gave her the advise that if row 13 went down so would the rest of the plane
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