We've all been there we've had to do our business on an airplane then when the
plane flushes there's a very scary noise which makes us think we may be sucked
out of the plane you may assume that the waste simply gets thrown into the sky
and goes into the ocean or someone down below but this is a total myth some also
think the pilot has a special button that empties the waste but that's a myth
too today we're going to see what really happens when you flush at 30,000 feet
and I'll also go over the scary phenomena which is blue ice from
airplane toilets falling on people I'm Charlie and today we're going to look at
what happens after you flush on an airplane but before we depart why not
subscribe and press the notification bell to one of the great mysteries of
the world seems to be how airplane toilets work well the system we use
today was invented in the 1970s by a guy named James Kemper before then
passengers on planes would simply have to do their duty in a bucket if there
was any turbulence or the plane moved around too much then things would get
very messy and smelly and they used to empty the pockets simply by chucking it
out of the window it would then land on someone or something below World War two
fighter pilots will also have to do their business in a bucket and sometimes
they would empty the bucket over their targets some would actually call that
biological warfare but today we have what's known as the Kemper vacuum system
this first appeared in 1982 on a Boeing plane the system uses a blue liquid
known as skycam that's right that blue liquid isn't chlorine or just coloring
instead it's a chemical specially developed for airplane toilets the
toilet also has a nonstick coating and a vacuum suction because of the loud noise
when you flush an airplane toilet many people think the waste is being sucked
out of the plane after all if you opened a plane door midair this would cause a
similar noise that's because the pressure of being so high up would cause
a vacuum well on airplane toilets there is actually a pneumatic vacuum that's
used when you press the flush button a valve opens at the bottom of the toilet
bowl a pneumatic vacuum then swells all of the contents and puts it into a waste
management this is basically a tank inside the
plane that collects all of the waste in that blue liquid known as Skycam but one
big myth everyone believes is that the captain of a plane can detach the toilet
tank and send it into the ocean this is actually a myth and there's no button
which allows the pilot to just empty out the waste just imagine if that button
was accidentally pressed it's not a good idea to have but if that's the case then
what are all these reports about blue ice falling from above well this is
usually a leak of the sewage tank that sewage then freezes midair as it's
falling because it's so cold up in the sky then it can fall to the ground and
hit someone or something there have been actual cases of this happening is that
I'll talk about in a moment but if the captain doesn't empty the waste then how
is it removed from the plane well the passengers will actually never see this
bit at the end of the flight after the passengers are off the plane someone
will attach a hose into the plane this then vacuums out the waste management
system into another tank on the back of a truck then once the waste is on that
truck its emptied out with the rest of the waste from the airport and then it
goes into the sewers just like any other toilet and a house but on that note has
anyone ever been seriously injured by falling waste from an airplane you may
think this is a rare occurrence but it's surprisingly common in the past 10 years
27 blue-ice incidents have been reported some of these have smashed car windows
and some have even gone through people's roofs and destroyed their homes recently
in Salt Lake City one woman was actually hit by some frozen sewage she thought it
was a small blue bird at first but after it hit her she realized it was a large
clump of airline waste the reason why it's blue is because of the sky cam they
keep in the waste management tanks it turned out it had leaked from the plane
and hit this woman also one girl's sweet 16 party was rained on by plane waste
yeah not exactly the birthday wish you could have hoped for
one couple's expensive RV was also wrecked by a piece of falling waste a
woman in India was also badly injured after some airliner waste the size of a
football fell on her and one day a couple having a nice evening on their
patio in New York had waste all over them they realized it was from an
airplane going from JFK but all of these people could have
actually cashed out if this happened to them you can be compensated by the
airline if this happens to you if you know the plane it came from and some say
they may compensate you up to ten thousand dollars every time hmm maybe I
should stand under more flight paths but there we have it guys that is what
happens after you flash on an airplane and why some people report seeing blue
ice falling from planes I have to be honest I always thought the pilots
simply dumped it in the ocean and I had no idea the trucks at airports actually
suck out all the waste from airplanes but now it's time to make your voice
heard vote in the poll in the top right corner have you ever seen blue ice full
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