A woman has shown how strong the suction on airplane toilets is, using a clever trick to demonstrate.
Jocelyn Saribay was on a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Las Vegas on November 6, 2024, when she decided to record a video in the airplane lavatory. In the clip, which has received more than 1.1 million views since it was first posted on November 11, Saribay places a piece of toilet paper on the floor of the plane’s bathroom.
In an aim to demonstrate how powerful the suction on an airplane toilet is, Saribay flushes it and waits to see if the piece of toilet paper on the ground gets sucked into the toilet, which it eventually does.
Saribay is shocked by the result, showing her reaction in the bathroom mirror after the piece of toilet paper disappears into the bowl.
She joked in the text overlay of the video that people say, “TikTok doesn’t teach you anything,” to which she said in the caption of the clip, “yes it does.”
A number of TikTok users have tried and tested this trick before, proving how powerful the suction on these toilets really are when they are flushed.
Saribay told Storyful: “The suction of the toilet was so strong, it sucked the toilet paper from the ground and into the toilet.”
Virgin Atlantic says airplane toilets use modern engineering vacuum techniques in their toilets to keep the need for water to a minimum, therefore reducing the weight and fuel usage of the aircraft.
Domestic air travel in the United States has been growing steadily over a number of years. In 2023, the number of people who flew between U.S. airports reached an all-time high of more than 819 million, according to Statista.
Saribay’s video received hundreds of comments from people sharing their thoughts and reactions on her plane toilet experiment.
TikTok user @ddancer0619, who described herself as a tired flight attendant, wrote underneath the viral video: “I can confirm that doesn’t work on every plane. And when it doesn’t work, please clean up after yourselves.”
Meanwhile, @Darealqueensona joked: “When you’re bored mid flight in the air.”
Toni Gentile commented: “I’m a flight attendant. I’m testing this out in my next trip.”
“When I flush on a plane I cover my ears I get scarred they’re going to fall out,” said Ayce Vibes.
Marysa wrote: “I flush the toilet at the very last second just after unlocking the door.”
“Not me watching this on an airplane about to go conduct some science,” said @Dhdueh.
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