In article , "Manuel"
wrote:

GRAZ, Austria (AP) - It was an inelegant intruder on a sunny
afternoon: a chunk of ice from a jetliner toilet that broke free and
slammed into an Austrian family's garden.


I thought that airplane toilets didn't flush outboard in-flight... so I
googled for it and found this:
http://www.faa.gov/fsdo/ord/blueice.htm

So how is this possible? Several news agencies quoted it, but it just
doesn't make sense to me.

As I read this page, it says

1) Airplane toilet waste is not deliberately dumped overboard, and is
not supposed to be dumped overboard **if** the machinery all works as
it's supposed to.

2) Birds drop waste that can be mistaken for airplane droppings.

3) Airliners do emit blue ice from sinks which can fall off the plane,
but none of it should reach the ground ***if it comes from above 30,000
feet***.

But the striking thing is that it **nowhere** clearly says:

1) Can't happen, period (even if something does wrong).

2) Doesn't happen, hasn't ever happened, period (even in cases where
things went wrong).

The statement is dishonest -- or at best, disingenuous -- not in what it
says, but in what it carefully **doesn't** say.