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I think it's because humans can easily confuse the pull caused by gravity with a pull caused by acceleration. We could tell the difference using the visual cues when we run or jump... but if you are sitting in the plane, the plane moves together with you, so all objects inside the plane are constantly giving you the wrong cues.
In other words, the plane is "far from natural". Not being from West doesn't help a lot here. Perhaps coming from an alien civilization where kids spend most of their time in flying saucers would make a difference.
It's not just humans -- the basic idea of general relativity is that (short of looking out or detecting tidal effects) it's impossible in principle to tell them apart.