When you are on an airplaine && you use the bathroom...where does it go??

Question

When you are on an airplaine && you use the bathroom...where does it go??

Answer 1

a septic tank that gets cleared out when the airplane lands with a big ol' hose.

Answer 2

a large tank which is emptied after flights

Answer 3

Have you ever tasted airline coffee?  

yes, 1 + 2's doesn't always equal 3

Answer 4

It surely does not drop from the sky

Answer 5

Either it is kept in a Holding Tank (If flight is over major cities) otherwise sometimes (Often) it is dumped over Oceans and unpopulated areas

Answer 6

Inside a holding tank to be jettison out over peoples homes or saved for recycling....

Answer 7

normally into a holding tank that is at the rear of the aircraft, which is then emptied into a lavatory service truck when the aircraft lands at it's destination.

Answer 8

Into a giant plastic ball that is dumped appropriately when the plane lands. Same thing on a bus, but sometimes they dump it in the river on top of tourists on a site-seeing boat tour! (Dave Matthews Band)

Answer 9

The blue solution in the bowl dissolves solid matter and mixes everything together.  It is drawn by a pump called a "masserator" into a holding tank at the back end of the cargo area.

Lavatory waste is NEVER dumped overboard, even out over the middle of the ocean.  NEVER, ever, ever.  There isn't even a way to do that.  All the stories about "blue ice" and the like are trashy urban legend stories.

When the tank is full, a truck called the Lav Service Truck, or sometimes called the "Honey Wagon" comes and pumps it out, and fills the system with fresh blue lav solution.  When the Lav Service Truck's tanks are full, it is taken to the nearest sewage disposal plant and pumped out into the inlet holding tanks.

When it all works smoothly, the Chief Flight Attendant gets an award.  If anything goes wrong, the Captain gets a chewing out.  It's always the Captain's problem.

Enjoy your flight!

Answer 10

it goes in a collection bin that's later dumped from the sky over Fenway Park in Boston....lol

Answer 11

Have you ever felt some "rain" drops in a clear summer day?

Answer 12

When you're traveling a mile high in the sky, an airline toilet has to function a little differently than the one found in your home. That's because you're faced with a finite amount of space for septic tanks, pipes, water, and other plumbing components in a pressurized cabin environment.

HowStuffWorks.com offers this excellent overview on commercial aircraft plumbing. We learned that ingenious engineers devised vacuum toilets, which don't have to rely on gravity and a water-filled toilet bowl to flush out waste. When you flush a vacuum toilet, waste and a small amount of blue sanitizing liquid are sucked into a septic holding tank. Because the vacuums are so powerful, the pipes can be fairly narrow and very little water is necessary to "get the job done." And since gravity is not involved, the sewer pipes can be run straight up to conserve space.

Some creative web surfing led us to an FAA document on "management of aircraft washes and similar wastes." On page 29, we found a diagram of air flotation treatment systems. The document further explains how wastes are collected, separated, and treated in a specially devised tank system. However, it doesn't elaborate on waste disposal.

While we could not find specific FAA documents on disposal regulations, it's common knowledge that the so-called "blue ice" or "brown goo" that accumulates within airplanes does drop onto unsuspecting targets from time to time.

Recently, an unlucky resident of Santa Cruz, California, received a special blue ice delivery courtesy of an American Airlines plane right through the skylight of his boat. He took the airline to small claims court and won a modest sum. A Pittsburgh woman's home was also subject to such a delivery. Other folks describe mysterious biological material that appears splattered around their houses and property.

hope this helps