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    Can a heavy set person get stuck on the vacuum flush toliets in airplanes?

    Question #77504. Asked by star_gazer. (Mar 19 07 9:37 PM)


    What-A-Mess

    		It does not happen.

    Mar 19 07, 10:55 PM
    toughynutter

    		Contrary to intiall BBC reports No

    Myth busters
    "An obese person can get stuck on an airline vacuum toilet.

    Busted

    It is impossible to get a perfect seal on a modern airplane toilet, and even if it is possible a properly working toilet provides suction for only a few seconds. Even then, the suction (3 psi) is not beyond human ability to overcome."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MythBusters_special_episodes

    and Snoops on the BBC report that they later had to retract

    http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/toilet.asp

    Mar 19 07, 10:56 PM
    skysmom65

    		Oh, the visual that goes with this is hysterical!!

    Mar 20 07, 2:31 PM
    lanfranco

    		Well, this relieves me to no end. (Er, no pun intended.) Way back in Junior High School, a friend lent me a copy of "Coffee, Tea or Me?" in which an airline passenger ends up in this awful predicament. I was always suspicious that the author had made the whole thing up, but it's nice to know that it really is a myth.

    Mar 20 07, 4:45 PM

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