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[P]Couple Says Home Covered In Airplane Toilet Waste; Airline Sends Crew To Clean House
[P]POSTED: 9:08 a.m. EST November 21, 2002
[P]FREEPORT, Pa. -- U.S. Airways said it''s not to blame, but it did send a crew to clean up a house in western Pennsylvania.
[P]A woman who lives in the South Buffalo Township, Pa., home said she found purple, black and blue ice clumps on her house, sidewalk, swimming-pool cover and her mother-in-law''s car.
[P]The FAA is trying to determine if it was bathroom waste from a passing passenger jet. [BR][BR]The agency says it''s quite possible for what''s known as blue ice -- airline lavatory waste -- to break away from planes as they descend to warmer altitudes.
[P]It''s illegal for planes to dump lavatory waste in flight.[FONT size=3] [/FONT][/P]
[P]POSTED: 9:08 a.m. EST November 21, 2002
[P]FREEPORT, Pa. -- U.S. Airways said it''s not to blame, but it did send a crew to clean up a house in western Pennsylvania.
[P]A woman who lives in the South Buffalo Township, Pa., home said she found purple, black and blue ice clumps on her house, sidewalk, swimming-pool cover and her mother-in-law''s car.
[P]The FAA is trying to determine if it was bathroom waste from a passing passenger jet. [BR][BR]The agency says it''s quite possible for what''s known as blue ice -- airline lavatory waste -- to break away from planes as they descend to warmer altitudes.
[P]It''s illegal for planes to dump lavatory waste in flight.[FONT size=3] [/FONT][/P]