Do airplanes throw debris when they fly??

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Have you ever wondered what happens to waste from airplane toilets in flight?? Here's a quick and reassuring explanation.

Perhaps many of us have thought about what happens to the waste that we humans generate in flight and that we leave very quietly in the different toilets of the aircraft., it is even thought that these wastes are eliminated immediately when we unchain the bathroom.

Although it could seem logical, The reality is that the waste we generate on the planes stays on the planes., at least a large part.

Even conspiracy theories circulate on the Internet, similar to that of chemtrails where they say that planes are "dropping" human waste over our cities, but the reality is that this is not the case.

What do airlines do with airplane debris??

Taking into account that the statistics say that on a flight of more than 12 hours people will go to the bathroom at least 2.5 times, which will generate more than 230 gallons of waste, The most logical thing would be that this weight, which in the long run affects the performance of the plane, would be released in the air..

When you flush the toilet and hear that big noise, people commonly think that all their waste was shot into the atmosphere and landed in the nearest city, but really everything of yours went straight to a tank located usually, at the rear of the aircraft.

Once on land or in the scale of the flight, This tank is emptied with a hose that connects from a truck to the plane and it is also disinfected later., so you can rest assured that they are not "bathing" us with feces and other.

Modern toilets were invented and patented by James Kemper, who added the Skykem liquid that disinfects and with the suction effect leaves practically nothing in the bathroom when activated and from this Skykem the "blue ice" is born.

Blue ice or blue ice

Although nothing is released into the atmosphere, the Skykem, due to its blue color, has generated more than one report of blue ice falling with a very unpleasant content falling on some houses, even damaging them, but they have been very specific cases and have given way to the myths mentioned above.

In these few reported cases that are not a general, have allowed to know that apparently, sometimes the tank containing the waste will overflow and lead to the fall of blue ice, but the odds happen to you, is practically minimal.

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13 Comments on “Do the planes throw waste when they fly?”

  1. It is so unlikely that the sewage tank will open in flight, how to open one of the doors of the plane. Sometime look at the shape of the lid, It's a very particular setting, that only "opens" when the hose of the Tank Tank is embedded that comes to do the service. and that mouth, is covered with an additional lid. Only that for some reason a pipe breaks or something like that, that's not going to happen. Also, if by some accident it came out, it would be pulverized by the speed of the plane.
    Formerly….. ahhhh, that's another thing. On the principles of commercial aviation, if there was that, discharged into the atmosphere, flying over uninhabited places and over the sea. Usually, unpressurized aircraft. but of that, a long time ago.

      1. As I said, before they were not so careful. What I do know is the reverse, in a 707 a passenger pressed the button and YES IT HAPPENED… HE BATHED WITH THE BLUE LIQUID + WHAT COMES WITH IT, INSIDE THE BATHROOM!!!!!. Therefore, before they had some failures in the system. and it could happen.

  2. There must be some more interesting topic to write about. Is seriously? Who thinks that the plane drops what would become AASS? Or that this would affect performance? He went to the trouble of calculating the net weight of each stool
    …that is, at least I assume that the blue water that the plane already carries remains, only that it passes from one reservoir to another already with the stools. A fine….

  3. Thanks, well explained, with perfect censorship of words that I thought were going to appear hehehe, the question is
    How could blue ice possibly damage a house?, I don't think it's a frozen stream of 3 meters long 😂