I was in a car the other day, my husband driving, when something hit the front window. We both went "what was that?" He then casually said "oh, someone probably flushed a frozen pea or something down the loo on a plane" Is it true, that they chuck out "stuff" from a great height? Where does it really go, and what really happens to it?
2006-10-14 11:06:10 · 31 answers · asked by Mayuka H 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
It isn't true it is dumped mid flight! There are trucks which empty it at the airport just like you would empty sceptic tanks.
It is quite common for illegal immigrants to get on a plane to the UK and rip up their passport & throw it down the toilet on the plane so they can claim asylum when they land (they can't be sent back without a passport). When this happens the Customs & Immigration staff have to get someone to hoke through the toilet contents!
2006-10-14 11:09:12 · answer #1 · answered by dollydealer1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ask Billy Connelly; he had a routine about the "jobby wheecher" ages ago...
but no, the crap goes into a bucket. The bucket is emptied with a hose that the ground staff stick onto the plane (I think) via a little valve. If the valve leaks while airborne, the shoite will leak out (because the cabin is pressurised) and freeze on the outside around the valve. Bits of it will fall off. "blue ice" it's called. Dangerous, unpleasant, and completely impossible to trace to any particular aircraft.
2006-10-14 11:11:05 · answer #2 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It goes int a tank and gets pumped out at the airport just like a RV exept it is okay to #2 on a plane if you must. I is not ejected from the plane like in that movie Joe Dirt.
That one that hit you're window was probably a rock or maybe aliens did it.
2006-10-14 11:17:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is flushed into a tank on board the plane. When the plane lands, the tanks are flushed out - much like a trailer dumping station for RV's in a campsite.
2006-10-14 11:08:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is stored in a tank. In rare instances "blue ice" can fall from the sky when a plane comes into land if the way of emptying the tank has a slight leak.
2006-10-14 11:16:01 · answer #5 · answered by bovie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they store it in the bottom of the plane and empty it out when they land. But I do know that one time, people who were taking a romantic boat ride in France once had all the contents dumped on them when the tank was accidentally released.
2006-10-14 11:08:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the waste goes in to a holding tank and is dumped in to a latrine service truck when the aircraft lands the toilet is cleaned and fresh flushing fluid is placed in the tank on the aircraft generally in a maintence stop or a long layover
2006-10-14 11:19:14 · answer #7 · answered by Tom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is stored in tanks, believe it or not the weight of the content of the tanks is used to balance the aircraft during flight and as such certain assumptions are made, now depending on the aircraft, it can be dumped in blocks of ice, usually over sea, but sometimes on land or it can be pumped out at the airport.
2006-10-14 21:27:09 · answer #8 · answered by JD417 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever seen the movie Joe Dirt?
Well, it's supposed to be held in a tank until it lands and is cleaned out. But sometimes it "lets loose" in the air, freezes in a block, and crash lands, hopefully in an empty area, sometimes not.
2006-10-14 11:14:42 · answer #9 · answered by marie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
every time i'm in this occasion I in simple terms in simple terms throw them out the window.(i'm downstairs however and a lot of canines are in my community so...) yet reducing them into very small products will help with making specific they flush perfect.
2016-10-19 09:54:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋