No, an airplane toilet doesn’t suck entrails and people don’t

If you only have a few seconds, read these lines:

• In the restroom of some aircraft, there is a sign stating “Do not spill while sitting”.
• The reason for this warning is, in no way, that the toilet can suck the viscera or suck people.
• In the worst case, someone who is overweight can form a kind of plug in the bowl and get stuck pulling the chain until the plane descends a bit and it can come loose.

When traveling by plane, you definitely noticed one of the signs in the bathroom. In such a confined space, these types of warning or danger signs are hard to miss. Whether by graphics or written warnings, these notices, “Do not wash while sitting(Do not wash while sitting) somewhat troublesome. Why is it not recommended to press the button without getting up from the toilet?

There are those who have wondered, in case this type of indicator is ignored, that this “blank” we notice when the button is pressed flush In an aircraft lavatory it can make such a force towards the inside of itself He sucked the bowels of whoever was sitting.

This, of course, is not true. You’re not going to “empty yourself,” far from it. Most likely you just feel An intense breeze in your most intimate parts. Of course, the toilet also cannot swallow a person.

According to the flight engineer Will Simmons He is a retired pilot from the US Air Force Thomas FarrierAt worst, a person who is overweight can He created with his successor a kind of seal in a cup bath and form a stopper in it. “in this situation, The passenger will be stuck by pulling on the chain, but only until the aircraft has descended to an altitude where the pressure difference is low enough to loosen it,” Simmons explains.

planes are used suction systemAnd proprietary in 1975 by James Kemper and first installed by Boeing in 1982. To remove fecal water. Kimber’s invention Suck the contents of the toilet (It maintains a partial vacuum, with air pressure below atmospheric pressure). Hence the sharp sound we hear when the button is pressed flush and suction power.

Water cannot be used in the aircraft toilet, as in conventional toilets, for obvious reasons: in a turbulent section, it can spill. Pressing the button opens a valve which, after suctioning out the contents, automatically closes and He transfers it to a deposit inside the plane.

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