In every passenger jet I’ve been in, there are signs in the bathrooms warning people not to throw trash in the toilet, that it can cause a leak/safety hazard.
Isn’t that just a plain sight instruction manual for terrorists on how to take down an airplane with non-explosive items?
Is the danger exaggerated? Or is this a serious security breach just waiting to be exploited? :eek:
I think the kind of safety hazards they’re probably talking about would be health-related ones relating to spillage of untreated wastes when they back up from pipes etc, or just expensive damage to systems (but it sounds more serious if you phrase it as a safety issue)
It’s bad to put things down the toilet because it makes the people who service the toilet’s job difficult and messy. I haven’t seen any placards about it being a safety issue which indicates to me that the placards you’ve seen are occupational health and safety related, and therefore specific to the country you live in, rather than physical safety related which would make them common for a particular aircraft regardless of the country. I know from my own work that the engineers don’t want anything other than toilet paper and human waste in there because it makes their job difficult.
Dismantling an airplane to find and or fix an obstruction can take an airplane out of service for many hours. I have seen the effects in the airplane factory when a plastic test turd gets stuck. I haven’t had to do that test in years, I hope I never get stuck doing it in the future. A placard stating the airplane will have to be taken out of service isn’t as scary as one that bring up safety issues.
Yeah, as the others have said: Whatever safety hazards it creates, they aren’t going to take down the plane in midair.
Can I say it? I want to say it.
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The hazard sign is for the benefit of non-terrorists and aren’t going to give terrorists ideas they didn’t already have.