Travelers warned as dangerous airplane sleeping position gains popularity

A viral TikTok inclination claiming to connection amended slumber connected airplanes is raising alarms implicit rider safety.

Videos amusement passengers pulling their feet onto their seats and securing their legs with a spot loop portion trying to slumber during flights — a presumption that has sparked statement astir comfort, etiquette and imaginable wellness risks.

The inclination has drawn mixed reactions crossed societal media. Some users questioned whether the presumption would really beryllium comfortable, portion others raised information concerns.

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Several TikTok users said the presumption was not allowed by formation crews, noting that formation attendants intervened erstwhile they tried it onboard.

"I tried to bash this and the formation attendant made maine stop," 1 commenter wrote. 

A viral TikTok inclination shows passengers buckling their legs onto airplane seats to sleep, raising concerns astir comfort, etiquette and safety. (iStock)

Another idiosyncratic recalled being "yelled astatine by a formation attendant" aft attempting the setup.

Others who tested the inclination said it came with drawbacks. 

One video creator acknowledged that portion the presumption felt comfy astatine first, her legs fell asleep.

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Some commenters besides pointed to different carnal discomforts, with 1 joking, "My tummy could never" — referencing state and digestive issues during flights.

Medical experts pass that the inclination could airs superior wellness risks, peculiarly connected longer flights.

Some commenters questioned the comfortableness of the slumber inclination connected planes, portion experts warned it could airs wellness risks. (Getty Images)

Carole Lieberman, M.D., a Beverly Hills–based board-certified psychiatrist with acquisition successful providing intelligence wellness programming for hose passengers, told Fox News Digital the presumption whitethorn summation the hazard of heavy vein thrombosis.

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"This inclination is precise unsafe due to the fact that it keeps the legs successful a tightly compressed position," Lieberman said.

She warned that humor clots tin person life-threatening consequences.

"This inclination is precise unsafe due to the fact that it keeps the legs successful a tightly compressed position."

"Deep vein thrombosis tin origin pulmonary embolisms, which tin beryllium deadly," she said.

Prolonged sitting during flights tin summation the hazard of humor clots, according to the Mayo Clinic. Measures specified arsenic wearing compression socks and moving the legs regularly tin assistance enactment circulation.

Prolonged sitting during flights tin summation the hazard of humor clots, according to the Mayo Clinic. (iStock)

An etiquette adept said the signifier conflicts with modular expectations of airplane etiquette.

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Jacqueline Whitmore, an etiquette adept and erstwhile formation attendant based successful Florida, told Fox News Digital that placing feet connected the airplane seats successful beforehand of you is mostly considered mediocre etiquette.

She did accidental that, successful her view, determination are constricted circumstances wherever it whitethorn beryllium much acceptable.

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"Take your shoes disconnected and enactment socks oregon slippers on. This protects the spot arsenic good arsenic your feet," she said. "You tin besides screen your feet with your overgarment oregon a blanket."

Placing your feet connected the airplane seats successful beforehand of you is mostly considered mediocre etiquette, an adept noted.  (iStock)

Whitmore added that passengers should lone see doing truthful if nary 1 is seated adjacent to them. She besides said it mightiness beryllium done to debar discomfort, and said it is much due connected longer flights.

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Fox News Digital reached retired to respective airlines for remark astir the practice.