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A TikTok-famous flight attendant reveals

the real reason flight staff greet you
when you walk on a plane
Melissa Wiley 
Apr24,2021,1:17 AM

Kat Kamalani reveals the secret lives of flight attendants in her viral TikTok
videos. TikTok/@katkamalani
 People are loving Kat Kamalani's TikTok, where she shares what it's like to
be a flight attendant.
 In a recent video, Kamalani revealed that flight attendants size you up while
you board the plane.
 She said they're looking to see if you can help in an emergency and for
major red flags.
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Flight attendant Kat Kamalani is racking up millions of views on a video that reveals
how flight attendants size you up while you board the plane.

In the recent TikTok video, Kamalani (known on TikTok as @katkamalani) said flight

staff greet you when you walk on a plane to see if you can help in an emergency and for
major red flags. The video had about 2.5 million views and more than 500,000 likes at
the time of publication. 

Kamalani did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on this story.

Flight attendants are looking for able-

bodied people and warning signs
"So when you walk on the airplane and see our happy, smiling face, we're actually
looking you up and down, and we are trying to find our ABPs," the Salt-Lake-City-based
flight attendant said in the video. 

ABP stands for "able body person," or someone people who can help flight attendants in
an emergency, Kamalani said.

People who qualify as ABPs include military personnel, pilots, firefighters, cops, and
doctors, who can assist with medical emergencies or help in situations when the pilot
needs to land the plane or if there is a security breach, she said.

Flight attendants also scan for ABPs while walking up and down the aisles, she said.

One TikTok follower who said they were a doctor asked how Kamalani would know his
profession just by looking at him.

"Oh, we know," Kamalani responded in the comments, adding a wink emoji.

Responding to another follower who asked the same question, she wrote that some
passengers tell staff "'hey, I'm a doctor in seat 34A just in case," which is appreciated.
Flight attendants are also looking for signs of human trafficking, Kamalani says at the
end of her video.

"It happens a lot in the industry," she said. "And our passenger safety is our number one
priority, so we're just looking for things that look off." 

An example of a sign that something is a bit off would be "if somebody's holding a box
that's leaking or producing a certain smell," Kamalani previously told Insider.

Flight attendants are trained to look for human trafficking, Insider's Mark
Matousek previously reported, and will report their concerns to the flight's captain.

The captain can then call operations employees on the ground the figure out more about
the passenger, like whether or not they have a one-way ticket.

About 460,000 victims of human trafficking were identified in the US between 2012 and
2018, according to the State Department.

If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, you can call the National
Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.

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