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Old 05-11-2007, 11:43 AM
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Default URGENT****AEROPLANE & TRAIN travel***Human Excretement?

Where does it go????? If you go in an aeroplane, surely it does not get flushed into the air?? or does it??
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Old 05-11-2007, 11:47 AM
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I used to fly as an aircrew member in the U.S. Air Force. We had the same kind of toilets on our C-135 aircraft as commercial airliners do.

The waste stays in the airplane and is removed by the crew chiefs on the ground after the plane lands. They then dispose of it in a sewer facility at the airport or airfield.
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Old 05-11-2007, 11:48 AM
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of course it does not, or what woud happen the time that lady gave birth in the aeroplane toilet!?!?!?! the baby didnt fall out the plane, silly, that woud be cruel!!!

in planes they flush it into a big box where it stays til the end of the flight, then they fire it over fields to make fertilizers for poor countries (see source)

hope this helps!!! :)
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Old 05-11-2007, 11:50 AM
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Yes, actually it does but from what I heard they usually dump it in the ocean or in fields for fertilizer, and some just pump it all out when the plane lands . I don't know if they've stopped doing that, but a while back someone's house got a big hole in the roof from where a plane about 36,000 feet in the air dumped their lavoratory and when a plane is at that height excrement freezes before falling to the ground. Needless to say they let off a boeing bomb. lol Trains I believe have a lavoratory that get drained like that of a recreational vehicle. It is just a holding tank and when the train gets to their destination where they drain it they just hook up some hoses to the holding tank and pump it all out.
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Old 05-12-2007, 07:11 AM
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It's recycled as economy-class gravy.
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