How do you connect to the internet while barreling through the sky at 500 miles per hour? How can you brew hot food and drinks at high altitude? And most important of all, how does a toilet work at 40 ...

Air India has recently faced flight disruptions on international routes due to clogged lavatories, raising concerns about aircraft toilet system performance. Instances on Boeing 777 flights from ...

Lavatory sinks are a different matter. Unlike toilet waste, gray water from sinks still drains overboard through heated drain ...

Commercial planes weighing up to 800,000 pounds—that’s 400 tons—manage to routinely hurtle through the skies, delivering passengers safely to their destinations and providing essential services like ...

With clogged toilets affecting two international flights in two months, a look at the physics behind the functioning of aircraft toilets Clogged lavatories have disrupted two of Air India’s ...

I think many people are concerned about the cleanliness of the toilet that many people use, but the feeling is even more if the airplane toilet where the space is limited. Boeing, a leading aircraft ...

Testing aircraft toilet waste could help track the global spread of drug-resistant superbugs, which is often referred to as the “silent pandemic” and are projected to kill more people than cancer by ...

Toilet bowls are Teflon coated. “So nothing sticks, and it doesn’t need much at all – the differential pressure clears everything mighty quickly,” says Jones. Airlines choose how many toilets they ...