Are airlines making Trump's 'sh**hole countries' a 'literal' reality?

When US President Donald Trump used a scatalogical adjective to describe his least favourite nations, he presumably was not alluding to those places being regular recipients of celestial “blue ice”—frozen contents of aircraft lavatories allegedly dumped mid-air.

Indeed, it is well established that all precipitation is not rain these days and those who live along airport flight paths have been complaining about passenger poop pellets for years. Airlines have predictably dismissed claims of dumped sewage as a load of c**p, insisting that toilet tanks can only be emptied by special units from the outside, not ejected by the push of a button. But, as Forrest Gump memorably said, “**it happens”.

Yet, the National Green Tribunal’s December 2016 order (reiterated last week) directing the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to ensure planes don’t dump human waste during flights has apparently fallen on deaf ears. What was initially cited as a meteor crash in a wheat field in Haryana last weekend is now suspected to be blue ice. While a final verdict is awaited pending analysis of the melted meteor—one usual suspicion is frozen bird droppings—it is not surprising that the villagers who had pilfered shards to store in their refrigerators smelling a business opportunity, have decided to disinfect their appliances instead.