A passing jet drops its sewage
A Long Island, N.Y., couple were on their back deck when a passing commercial jet showered them with sewage. Artie Hughes and his wife heard the jet pass overhead, and then felt droplets. “Oh my God, it’s raining,” Hughes’s wife said. Hughes saw “some black liquid” all over his wife’s face, and all over the deck. Fearing that the jet might be leaking hydraulic fluid, he called police, but a cop who examined the drops told him, “Looks like something nastier than that.” It turned out that a plane had accidentally discharged the contents of its sewage tank.
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