Even if you’re 37,000 feet in the air, you still have to go when you have to.
Especially when you are in severe need of a number two, it is one of those things that we never truly examine.
Have you ever given any thought to what occurs when you use the restroom on an airplane, though?
For all of you frequent travelers out there, this is exactly what occurs when you use the restroom on an airplane.
Instead, everything is drained away, and any waste is then transported by plumbing to specially designed, sealed compartments at the back of the aircraft.
This can occur up to a thousand times on a Boeing 747 during a long-haul flight, according to TikTok influencer and pilot Garrett Ray, which may help to explain why there is always a line.
The US pilot also disclosed that more than 1,211 liters (320 gallons) of waste can be produced during that time, in case you were still inquisitive about what is involved in taking a leak mid-flight.
The waste is then carefully pushed out of the aircraft via a hose connected to a port once you have arrived at your destination.
Staff at the airport performs this often before allowing the aircraft to take off once more.
Naturally, there are times when things with the high-altitude excrement don’t go as planned.
This area, which was given its name for the disinfectant’s color, is where frozen waste escapes off airplanes, typically from the service port.
When the weight grows too heavy, the ensuing overflow finally descends onto those below. (yuk!)
Even though solid blocks of blue sewage have rarely impacted humans because to contemporary vacuum toilets, it has happened.
One unhappy British man who stepped outside into his Windsor garden and got covered in the substance.
To make matters worse, in 2021, as the UK was releasing its lockdown, the poonami struck, covering the man’s “whole garden, and garden umbrellas, and him,” according to the BBC.
What a terrible day.
Councilman Geoff Paxton noted that such instances are “very rare” at a later parish meeting.
He explained to participants that he has spent more than 40 years working at several airports: “We used to have problems with blue ice [frozen human waste and disinfectant] on arrivals but that was because those toilets used to leak.”
In all honesty, it’s enough to give you a slight flush.
