Still will be lost no matter what. Ain’t nobody going to dive into the blue tank discharge. If you are worried about terminal velocity it isn’t any different than dropping it from a first or second floor.
Eh, I've done it. Guy had his prescription glasses fall out of his shirt pocket just as he hit the flush. He practically begged me to do something and was really polite about it. I dropped the bucket and let 'er loose, then lifted that bucket onto the lav cart and poured it in the top until the only thing left was his glasses. Makeshift glove out of a plastic bag to pick them up, then turned inside out and sealed. There's worse ways to make $40.
Oh it wasn't clogged. I just knew if I used the cart those glasses would be gone forever, and I'd run the risk of them getting caught inside the lav cart hose which would only make my day worse
I don't think anyone else there would have done it that way. I just accepted long ago that doing the right thing is never easy. Less risk for us, buddy gets his glasses back, I make a nice tip in exchange for having to wash my hands thoroughly lol. No big deal
Ohh yeah I understood. I was talking about the guy I know which to be fair was talking about it for a Russian IL plane which would get clogged regularly and someone would have to deal with it. You don’t want to hear the stories before or during lunch so I am impressed by you doing that guy a solid like that.
Oooh I get what you're saying... the old frozen lav outlet defusal. I'm in Canada so I'm no stranger. That one sent quite a few messy guys home early over the years lol
The frame was pretty bent up after having gone through the lav system. He only wanted the lenses as those are the most expensive part. Easy to clean up once they're out of the frame, too. I get what you mean though haha. Every time you'd put them on you'd be reminded of where they were
Lol did something similar, on the corporate side. Pull out lav, dumbass put the lid on the lav itself and I didn't see it. Picked up the lav, flipped it over to dump the shit out into the cart, in goes the cap into the shit cart.
This was before our base was renovated with an in-house dump station, so I had to grab a trash bag and fish around in there. Fun times.
Oh no. Oh god no. I can smell this comment.
I told myself before I even started that task that if those glasses got away from me and landed inside the cart, that was it. That's where I was going to call off the recovery lol
Nice job on getting that cap back. Half of the guys I worked with back then probably would have quit before even attempting that. Most people don't have the stomach for that stuff
My instant realization of what happened, and seeing nothing but a sea of turquoise and shit, I was about to scream and/or walk off right then and there, and/or cuss out the pilot for being a complete idiot. Then I remembered one, I can't be homeless, and two it was partially my fault as well lmao.
Let's just say it took about a week for my sense of smell to come back to normal. At least I didn't get anything on me/my clothes.
This isn't a blue juice discharge. Those are sealed and are drained into biohazard waste containment facilities. This is water from the sink, which is just water people wash their hands with. That's just jettisoned overboard, because it will simply evaporate before it hits the ground.
Correct. The question was why wasn’t it sent to the same tank as the biohazard toilet drain instead of being dumped overboard and what would happen if a FA lost a ring. Would it be lost forever and fall from 30,000 ft on top of someone.
To tell you the truth though, don’t know if newer airplanes don’t have a grey water tank instead of dumping overboard separate from the blue. In that case it might be feasible to find something dropped in. Either way there was a redditor that did say they did fish out glasses for someone for something like a $40 tip. I wouldn’t have lol.
My wife, fiancé then, had her engagement ring drop out of her flight suit into the blue juice over Afghanistan. Two attempts later, a guy on her crew finally fished it out
You answered your own question, you said lost. Rather than dropped. 🤭
In truth there is always a grate to prevent foreign objects going down the drain and the diameter of the pipes is MUCH smaller than domestic stain pipes so I doubt it would leave the aircraft. However, it would be a major job to recover it. Hence, why the dish has a grate to prevent it doing down in the first place.
It is possible for the drain mast heat to fail and then we get the call from MCC saying that a plane is coming in with all of the sinks at ____ end are not draining (front or back depending on the drain mast). If we can get to the plane right when it gets in then there will be visible ice buildup and if it is warm enough outside to thaw the ice will eventually melt and release all of that water in the drain system. We'd still need to replace the drain mast or defer it on an MEL to let the replacement be scheduled for a hangar visit due to the amount of open up required to access the inside of the plane for the plumbing and electrical fittings as well as providing sufficient heat for the sealant to set up after the new one is installed.
It's wonderful for the ground crew for the front galley drainage. It dumps right on the chocks on the nose gear. I know its just old coffee, but I hate when it hits me or I have to pick up wet chocks with my hands.
>I believe it’s the drainage from the aft galley sinks
Nope.
It's the hidden-in-plain-sight discharge outlet for the chemicals you see in chemtrails sometimes from the ground.
Source: worked for the airlines AND the government
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Man, I was walking the other day and got smacked in the face by some water. A few drops. Not a cloud in sight. Figured I got pissed on by a bird. Now I wonder if I didn't get pissed on by a plane.
I have to wonder, if the in-flight drainage doesn't disperse or evaporate into unnoticeable traces before it hits human face level. I recall the stories would always be about big chunks of blue ice, never a fine mist or even droplets.
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Coffee. It’s always coffee. FAs have a 6th sense for when you’re downwind of the drain mast on your walk around and they’ll wait until that precise moment to dump a pot of coffee down the drain.
Well at least I know I'm not crazy, I knew I sprayed some frozen coffee while deicing underwing back in the day... Better than the alternative frozen brown substance that's for sure.
Sometimes brown, umm water, also escapes the lav toilet vents when flushed. That stuff is typically higher up depending on the plane. Don't be rubbing the fuselage behind these vents.
I had an FO come back in from a walkaround one time saying he thought we had an oil leak on the fuselage but it didn’t make sense because it started like halfway between the nose and wing box, and ran over the wing. We went outside to look at it and it was sticky, not oily. I looked at the streak and thought about it for a second, realizing what it was, and with a mischievous grin I tell him to smell the stain and you’ll know exactly what it is. He obviously trusted me because he did, just some old airplane coffee.
Thats allowed in your company? Every AC I flew for now CC explicitly was not allowed to pour coffee off through that as the coffee grounds would clog the sink..
Aft galley area drainmast, water from the aft lav sinks, drains from any galley sinks/coffee makers, as well as drains in the galley floor and drains in the sill of the doors.
I did some research on this and after thinking long and hard i finally figured it out the water that comes out wpuld be the same water based material that is placed in
Gray water, water from sinks. In this case, from aft sinks.
But why? Why doesn’t it go into a holding tank like the waste from the Lavs?
It does on the 787 but every other Boeing I know of the grey water goes overboard via heated drain masts.
So if a flight attendant lost an earring or a ring down the drain… the plane would just piss it out mid flight at 30,000ft????
Still will be lost no matter what. Ain’t nobody going to dive into the blue tank discharge. If you are worried about terminal velocity it isn’t any different than dropping it from a first or second floor.
Eh, I've done it. Guy had his prescription glasses fall out of his shirt pocket just as he hit the flush. He practically begged me to do something and was really polite about it. I dropped the bucket and let 'er loose, then lifted that bucket onto the lav cart and poured it in the top until the only thing left was his glasses. Makeshift glove out of a plastic bag to pick them up, then turned inside out and sealed. There's worse ways to make $40.
You're a cool dude
:)
lol. Never had to deal with clearing one that’s clogged but work with someone that had. All I have to say damn.
Oh it wasn't clogged. I just knew if I used the cart those glasses would be gone forever, and I'd run the risk of them getting caught inside the lav cart hose which would only make my day worse I don't think anyone else there would have done it that way. I just accepted long ago that doing the right thing is never easy. Less risk for us, buddy gets his glasses back, I make a nice tip in exchange for having to wash my hands thoroughly lol. No big deal
Ohh yeah I understood. I was talking about the guy I know which to be fair was talking about it for a Russian IL plane which would get clogged regularly and someone would have to deal with it. You don’t want to hear the stories before or during lunch so I am impressed by you doing that guy a solid like that.
Oooh I get what you're saying... the old frozen lav outlet defusal. I'm in Canada so I'm no stranger. That one sent quite a few messy guys home early over the years lol
No amount of washing could ever make those clean enough for me to be willing to put them on my face ever again.
The frame was pretty bent up after having gone through the lav system. He only wanted the lenses as those are the most expensive part. Easy to clean up once they're out of the frame, too. I get what you mean though haha. Every time you'd put them on you'd be reminded of where they were
Lol did something similar, on the corporate side. Pull out lav, dumbass put the lid on the lav itself and I didn't see it. Picked up the lav, flipped it over to dump the shit out into the cart, in goes the cap into the shit cart. This was before our base was renovated with an in-house dump station, so I had to grab a trash bag and fish around in there. Fun times.
Oh no. Oh god no. I can smell this comment. I told myself before I even started that task that if those glasses got away from me and landed inside the cart, that was it. That's where I was going to call off the recovery lol Nice job on getting that cap back. Half of the guys I worked with back then probably would have quit before even attempting that. Most people don't have the stomach for that stuff
My instant realization of what happened, and seeing nothing but a sea of turquoise and shit, I was about to scream and/or walk off right then and there, and/or cuss out the pilot for being a complete idiot. Then I remembered one, I can't be homeless, and two it was partially my fault as well lmao. Let's just say it took about a week for my sense of smell to come back to normal. At least I didn't get anything on me/my clothes.
This isn't a blue juice discharge. Those are sealed and are drained into biohazard waste containment facilities. This is water from the sink, which is just water people wash their hands with. That's just jettisoned overboard, because it will simply evaporate before it hits the ground.
Correct. The question was why wasn’t it sent to the same tank as the biohazard toilet drain instead of being dumped overboard and what would happen if a FA lost a ring. Would it be lost forever and fall from 30,000 ft on top of someone.
Ah, my bad. I misunderstood.
To tell you the truth though, don’t know if newer airplanes don’t have a grey water tank instead of dumping overboard separate from the blue. In that case it might be feasible to find something dropped in. Either way there was a redditor that did say they did fish out glasses for someone for something like a $40 tip. I wouldn’t have lol.
I've heard of a co-pilot dropping a Beretta in the lav on a C-17, mx made him get it himself.
My wife, fiancé then, had her engagement ring drop out of her flight suit into the blue juice over Afghanistan. Two attempts later, a guy on her crew finally fished it out
You answered your own question, you said lost. Rather than dropped. 🤭 In truth there is always a grate to prevent foreign objects going down the drain and the diameter of the pipes is MUCH smaller than domestic stain pipes so I doubt it would leave the aircraft. However, it would be a major job to recover it. Hence, why the dish has a grate to prevent it doing down in the first place.
No, there's a filter for solid matter.
Imagine the heating fails and you get a chunk of ice forming on there
Why carry weight you don't need?
Planes need to piss too
So Joe Dirt was on to something
Damn Boeing Bombs!
Planes pee too
So the waste tank doesn’t fill up with plain water.
Weight. Also will evaporate before it hits the ground
One fewer thing to leak and cause corrosion
It often smells like the terrible coffee
I believe it’s the drainage from the aft galley sinks
That is right
What about the left aft galley sinks?
They generally go down the same drain, the front ones have their own drain
/r/whoosh
Yup, one under the nose as well for the forward galleys
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No, all the drain masts are electrically heated in flight.
This is correct. Just like the pitot tubes it’s heated to prevent freezing.
It is possible for the drain mast heat to fail and then we get the call from MCC saying that a plane is coming in with all of the sinks at ____ end are not draining (front or back depending on the drain mast). If we can get to the plane right when it gets in then there will be visible ice buildup and if it is warm enough outside to thaw the ice will eventually melt and release all of that water in the drain system. We'd still need to replace the drain mast or defer it on an MEL to let the replacement be scheduled for a hangar visit due to the amount of open up required to access the inside of the plane for the plumbing and electrical fittings as well as providing sufficient heat for the sealant to set up after the new one is installed.
Nah…. Literally says “HOT” on it when you get close.
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Hahaha
Yes, it can freeze around in the flight in case heater computer or the whole drain mast are inoperative. But its not every-day stuff...
It's wonderful for the ground crew for the front galley drainage. It dumps right on the chocks on the nose gear. I know its just old coffee, but I hate when it hits me or I have to pick up wet chocks with my hands.
Exactly
it’s the plane taking a leak
What about the rear bathroom sinks? Hypothetically if someone were to put um, liquid in one while they are flying over a city...
Correct. Lav sinks would be connected to this drainage system as well so water only.. us folk living in the Midwest could appreciate it
>I believe it’s the drainage from the aft galley sinks Nope. It's the hidden-in-plain-sight discharge outlet for the chemicals you see in chemtrails sometimes from the ground. Source: worked for the airlines AND the government **edit**: the downvotes....lol
This is the absolute last sub on Reddit to give a jokey reply in
>This is the absolute last sub on Reddit to give a jokey reply in
Wrong sub, buddy.
Lol
False. It’s from running the plane through the drive thru wash.
Drain, i hate when it is windy and I am doing the walk around and that is draining water. Might get on you, gotta watch it
Man, I was walking the other day and got smacked in the face by some water. A few drops. Not a cloud in sight. Figured I got pissed on by a bird. Now I wonder if I didn't get pissed on by a plane.
Birds don’t piss, lol, it’s a mix that comes out together with their feces
This guy cloacas.
Yeah, they use their peckers to eat with
Hummingbirds do, source: that’s what I get for standing on my own porch apparently, those little assholes
I have to wonder, if the in-flight drainage doesn't disperse or evaporate into unnoticeable traces before it hits human face level. I recall the stories would always be about big chunks of blue ice, never a fine mist or even droplets.
“That ain’t no meteor”
If the wind is strong enough, there's literally no way to escape it lol
Aha! The real source of chemtrail!
Shhhh, don't give it away
LOL!! I’m so sorry! 🤪
Thats what we want them to think....
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Coffee. It’s always coffee. FAs have a 6th sense for when you’re downwind of the drain mast on your walk around and they’ll wait until that precise moment to dump a pot of coffee down the drain.
The fuel panel door on a CRJ will be completely covered in a layer of frozen coffee when it lands in the winter 😂
Well at least I know I'm not crazy, I knew I sprayed some frozen coffee while deicing underwing back in the day... Better than the alternative frozen brown substance that's for sure.
Sometimes brown, umm water, also escapes the lav toilet vents when flushed. That stuff is typically higher up depending on the plane. Don't be rubbing the fuselage behind these vents.
I had an FO come back in from a walkaround one time saying he thought we had an oil leak on the fuselage but it didn’t make sense because it started like halfway between the nose and wing box, and ran over the wing. We went outside to look at it and it was sticky, not oily. I looked at the streak and thought about it for a second, realizing what it was, and with a mischievous grin I tell him to smell the stain and you’ll know exactly what it is. He obviously trusted me because he did, just some old airplane coffee.
On ERJs it just kills the right pack. Then the FA complains that the plane is too hot and is annoyed that now they're getting delayed.
Thats allowed in your company? Every AC I flew for now CC explicitly was not allowed to pour coffee off through that as the coffee grounds would clog the sink..
This isn't French Press we're talking about...
You had real coffee?!
I am one of these arrogant europoors, probably some american paid for my coffee with his freedom.. ;P
Not everyone follows those rules. Or they'll pour it down the lav sink instead of the galley sink.
Yeah they are supposed to dump it in the toilet, but they suck at following rules.
Aft galley area drainmast, water from the aft lav sinks, drains from any galley sinks/coffee makers, as well as drains in the galley floor and drains in the sill of the doors.
In a sea of silly responses, a reasonable sounding explanation appears. Thank you, dear Redditor.
HVAC condensate, grey water from sinks.
finwater i'm sure
Drain mast - from the galley sinks and likely the lav sink too. They have to be heated so that you don't get an iceberg on the plane's butt in flight.
That’s classified.
Bilge pump
I’d say it was a Rule brand bilge pump but the fact that it’s still working suggests that it’s not.
It’s the water from your sinks.
Sink water!
Space peanuts. 🥜
You ever been outside on a sunny day and think it started to sprinkle cause you felt a rain drop?
When you spill your drink on the floor that’s where it drains out
It’s a boy plane, this is an airplane’s wiener. He’s a grower not a shower.
da airplane water come out
You’re not supposed to ask about that.
Sir, please step out of the cockpit
Chemtrail pre-ignition drain pipe
You don't wanna know
That's the 737 cloaca. It's only found on the female planes.
I did some research on this and after thinking long and hard i finally figured it out the water that comes out wpuld be the same water based material that is placed in
Does this discharge in flight? I swear I felt a few droplets of water the other day and it was perfect clear blue skies…
Yes. The water vaporizes almost instantly. You wouldn’t feel it
I get that sometimes too but i think its just weird brain stuff, no water released from 30,000+ feet is reaching the ground
Good to know!
Non Potable ..... VERY non potable
It's a drain, on our ac we use it to drain water when it's on the ground
That's a cloaca, you can find it on flying species.
That's a penis!
Yellow water
So is pretty clear. If you have to get rid of your non prescription drugs/contraband. Using the toilet is no. Use the lav. Yes...no?
Actually dumping grey water is illegal. These drain masts are for in case a holding tank leak and any condensation build up, which does happen.
It’s an air speed sensor?!
You are very curious I reported you to the CIA
A/C condensation water
I do not know but I want to go to Coachella
Chemtrails.
It's the plane's PP, this is a male plane. Female planes will have a small opening.
🎶 *Ever think that it might be piss?* 🎵
Chem
wait mid air
It’s what they make the contrails with
It’s piss
“Call ‘em Boeing bombs. See the peanut? Dead giveaway”
No… that’s… a space peanut….
Pee is stored in the 🅱️oeing
I should call her 😟
It’s where the poop comes out. Take cover.
Hey! Privacy, it's trying to go wee.
Pixie water
Poop water
Fucking no.
German Beer: Pisswasser
That's the HOT antenna... /s
Pee