Flying commercially means following a lot of safety procedures, but why do flight attendants have you open a plane's window shades for takeoff and landing?

It's called a bleed hole. And it prevents your airplane window from blowing out. That's because the air pressure inside the plane is so much greater than outside, which would cause any normal ...

Plane windows have three panes, and the hole is only in the middle one. It's there to keep the air pressure inside the cabin ...

That's where this vintage footage taken inside the ... with windows being fitted to three different cockpits. Once the three sections of the 180-foot long aircraft are fabricated, they are brought ...

Airplane windows are designed to be rounded to better ... an environment where the outside air pressure is dangerously low. Inside, the cabin is pressurized to mimic conditions at about 6,000 ...

We asked the FAA why it's there, and they assured us it's totally safe. Here's why there are tiny holes in airplane windows. Follow TI: On Facebook More from Transportation If you've ever sat in ...