Just asking. I always wondered.
2006-08-24 08:34:00 · 18 answers · asked by etherialdowntime024 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
It gets recirculated into the snack. Those nuts they give you dont come for free you know.
2006-08-24 08:37:25 · answer #1 · answered by Gregg H 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The waste goes into a holding tank with some sanitizing solution and it is supposed to stay there until the tank is pumped out at an airport.
Sometimes there are leaks, and the waste slowly drips out and freezes as the plane flies at high altitudes. Eventually a large block of ice forms on the outside of the plane where the pump hose is supposed to attach. The ice is blue from the color of the sanitizing fluid.
When the plane lands, the ice might still be clinging to the side of the plane, or it might not. Sometimes the chunks of ice fall off the plane while it is flying. Sometimes the blue ice crashes through someone's roof, and people could get hurt.
See the link for a newspaper story about one incident.
2006-08-24 09:22:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
On the CRJ-200 the waste from the toilet is stored in a tank and is off loaded after landing much like an RV, waste water (grey water) from the bathroom and galley sinks is vented directly overboard through heated vents (to prevent the water from freezing) the water hits the airstream and is instantly turned into a fine mist as we are going around 400 MPH
2006-08-24 14:03:06 · answer #3 · answered by CRJPILOT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah, the ant may be fantastic. they have dropped ants from homes formerly, and that they have got been fantastic, and the ant might have reached terminal % via then so a plane may be no diverse in %, only in time interior the air. it extremely is weight is so low that it would not overwhelm itself at terminal %. Did you ever see that commerical the place they drop the ant from the surprising an an area and there are people on the floor and that they locate it?:
2016-12-14 11:09:32 · answer #4 · answered by rothe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only wastewater from the galley/lavatory sinks is discharged overboard, through heated drain masts.
Waste from the toilets is collected and emptied on the ground.
(bostonianinmo, that's great! It's been a while since I've heard anyone use the term "honey truck".)
2006-08-24 11:16:14 · answer #5 · answered by d_robertson744 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it falls down on anyone, it's the poor slob running the honey truck at the airport draining the tank. BTDT!
It is NEVER dumped in flight, even over the ocean. In fact, there's no way to do that anyway!
2006-08-24 10:41:58 · answer #6 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It has a holding tank like an RV and they dump it when it gets back to an airport. International flights dump over the ocean sometimes and it has happend over land before but not on purpose... There has been cases of frozen turds going through roof tops.
2006-08-24 08:57:21 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It stays inside the plane. However, planes have been known to dump their waste over the ocean on long trips! And sometimes they accidentally dump it over land.
2006-08-24 08:35:51 · answer #8 · answered by kja63 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It stays on the plane - at least I hope so!
2006-08-24 08:35:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stays inside.
2006-08-24 08:36:14 · answer #10 · answered by Raven 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it stays in the plane
2006-08-24 09:05:50 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋