I used to believe that after you flushed the toilet on an airplane that the waste would go out a trap door and land wherever the plane was flying over. I always pictured somebody walking down the street getting a face of full of human waste!!!
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you flushed an aeroplane toilet the waste would just drop out of the plane.Anon
- I used to believe that when you flushed on an airplane, it would land on the people below.Anon
- I used to think water towers were where everyone's uh...waste...went to from the toilets.— Stephanie
- My friend's sister used to think the auto pilot on a plane was an inflatable man like the one in Airplane!— Richard Davies
- if you shone a torch into the sky at night, an airplane would thin you were a runway and land on you— spam
- I used to believe that jay walking was walking naked on the street. — Kendra