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Airlines to pay fine if planes drop human waste during flight
Hindustan Times ^ | 12/21/2016

Posted on 12/22/2016 11:39:03 AM PST by Gamecock

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1 posted on 12/22/2016 11:39:03 AM PST by Gamecock
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50,000 Rupees!?!
That’s like $736!

Wonder how much it costs the airlines to have the toilets pumped out at the airport?


2 posted on 12/22/2016 11:40:32 AM PST by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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I think that’s really sh*tty of the airlines


3 posted on 12/22/2016 11:41:48 AM PST by Rebelrage (What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you, and to hear the lamenta)
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So they are making a rule forbidding throwing mooselimbs out the air lock during a flight?? That’s just not right.


4 posted on 12/22/2016 11:43:15 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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Have they though, calculated the reduction in carbon footprint due to the fact that when they let the poo go it lightens the plane thereby reducing fuel consumption?

I think this decision was rashly made without do consideration of the overall health of the planet.


5 posted on 12/22/2016 11:44:07 AM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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In a country where 300,000,000 have to poop in the street, I don’t think planes dumping human waste is all that big of a problem.


6 posted on 12/22/2016 11:44:16 AM PST by Timpanagos1
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Over India? Who they hell is going to know?


7 posted on 12/22/2016 11:45:17 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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“Bombs Away!!”


8 posted on 12/22/2016 11:46:58 AM PST by hoagy62 ("It's not the whole world gone mad. Just the people in it.")
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Why don’t the pilots just wait until they’re over Pakistan?


9 posted on 12/22/2016 11:50:40 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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This is nonsense. there is no way for aircraft to jettison the contents of a toilet in flight. Air crews must hook up to a valve while the plane is being serviced.


10 posted on 12/22/2016 11:51:54 AM PST by rey
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11 posted on 12/22/2016 11:53:25 AM PST by Sybeck1 (The Reason for the Season)
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If it happened once I would have asked why they kicked Obama out of that airplane.


12 posted on 12/22/2016 11:58:04 AM PST by libh8er
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13 posted on 12/22/2016 12:00:54 PM PST by LouieFisk
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Wonder how much it costs the airlines to have the toilets pumped out at the airport?

Only an underpaid airline employee with a honey wagon.

In another lifetime I emptied the aircraft on arrival as well as loaded baggage and freight so I have a wee bit of knowledge in this matter. There is no way for a pilot to jettison the toilet holding tanks in flight or on the ground for that matter. I submit the protesting hombre from his private enclave is experiencing something else entirely.


14 posted on 12/22/2016 12:08:32 PM PST by CARTOUCHE (There's a new sheriff in town and a new definition of hope and change is emerging.)
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I wonder if Indian trains still empty their toilet contents on the tracks?


15 posted on 12/22/2016 12:11:35 PM PST by Noob1999
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Back in the early 70s West German trains did so.


16 posted on 12/22/2016 12:13:21 PM PST by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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Good decision - those waste dumps are dangerous, a major cause for global concern. Even the US military devotes substantial resources to monitoring that threat.

It's true!

Airline toilets use blue water for their flush procedures. The blue water and the waste are then stored in a tank exposed to the frigid outside air until they form a large blue mass, which insiders call a "BM".

At some point, the pilot will dump the waste to save weight, which saves fuel and thus money. Evaporative cooling on the way down removes a little more heat, and the BM freezes shortly after release, posing a serious threat to anyone or anything in its path.

And that's the real reason why the US Air Force has radar networks monitoring the threat from "Icy BMs"

17 posted on 12/22/2016 12:14:41 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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I clicked on this article just to read the comments.........


18 posted on 12/22/2016 12:20:50 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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What are they planning to do with the hundreds of millions of people in India crapping on the ground? A little hypocritical if you ask me, given the reality.


19 posted on 12/22/2016 12:23:12 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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“Back in the early 70s West German trains did so.”

Most of the trains in Europe still just have toilets with pipes dumping right out on the tracks each time used...

Thus there are signs on trains, USE TOILETS ON TRAINS WHILE IN THE STATION.

My son did when we were in a train station in Germany and when the train pulled out there was a pile of crap and paper on the tracks in the station.... That was 2006. I imagine they have not changed much since then.


20 posted on 12/22/2016 12:25:58 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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