Complaint: In-flight Issue Stinking plane
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Old Sep 1, 2009, 9:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Jetliner View Post
I smell a rat with this story. PHX - did you happen to note the type of aircraft? It's a 767-300. The 767 does not have an individual tank under each toilet. It has a vacuum system, so one tank in the back of the aircraft, that is not under any toilet. Also there is a valve that closes when the toilet is done being flushed. So, unless each toilet had a load of waste in each one that was not flushed down, you cannot smell the contents of the tank.
Actually, I checked into this. DL047 operates as a single flight number from Moscow (SVO) via ATL then onward to SFO. In ATL there is a change in aircraft from the 767-300 SVO-ATL to a 757-200 ATL-SFO. You can check this for yourself at FlightAware.com. The only smelly rat here is the one that died in the lav!