YouTube brainbox GGP Grey investigates efficient and not-so-efficient ways to board commercial airline flights.
Random boarding is better, it seems, but as physicist Jason Steffen showed in 2008, there is a precise order which minimises the delay caused by other passengers stowing their luggage in overhead compartments.
An intoxicated passenger firmly duct-taped to his seat on board a flight from Iceland to New York snapped last Thursday afternoon by a friend of business developer Andy Ellwood, who offered the following explanation:
Passanger drank all of his duty free liquor on the flight from Iceland to JFK yesterday. When he became unruly, (i.e. trying to choke the woman next to him and screaming the plane was going to crash), fellow passengers subdued him and tie him up for the rest of the flight. He was escorted off the flight by police when it landed.
