Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Each aircraft equipped with a bathroom or lavatory needs to discharge its waste somehow. After an inbound aircraft arrives it is the duty of the "lav agent" to flush the lavatory system. In places where fewer or smaller aircraft are being serviced, a "lav cart" (essentially a small lav truck pulled behind a tug) is used to service the lavatories.
The Department of Transportation announced a rule that will require most new planes to have accessible bathrooms starting in 2035.
The Department of Transportation’s new regulation will require airplane bathrooms to be more accessible to disabled travelers. DOT Announces Rule Calling For Wheelchair-Accessible Toilets On ...
Manufacturers and airlines now have more than a decade to make bathrooms large enough for wheelchair users on the most common type of airliners under a new Department of Transportation rule issued ...
Blue ice can also be dangerous to the aircraft itself — the National Transportation Safety Board has recorded three very similar incidents where waste from lavatories caused damage to the leaking aircraft, [12] [13] [14] all involving Boeing 727s. In all three cases, waste from a leaking lavatory hit one of the three engines the 727 has ...
He has spearheaded disability events at the White House and has ushered in changes to air travel that will make airplane bathrooms more accessible and widen airplane aisles to accommodate personal ...
JetBlue Flight 191: During the March 27, 2012, flight from New York to Las Vegas, pilot Clayton Osbon, 49, of Savannah, Georgia, began making bizarre statements to his copilot about needing to take a leap of faith, not being able to make it to Vegas and not wanting to be held responsible for the plane crashing. During bathroom breaks in the ...
Airplane bathrooms might seem like they’re clean, but they’re actually pretty unsanitary. In between flights, the bathrooms are only given a quick spray of disinfectant, a wipe down, and then ...