VANCOUVER — Transport Canada says a substance that fell from the sky and onto vehicles and people in two British Columbia communities was not human feces from aircraft.
The department has been investigating reports of frozen lavatory waste falling from planes in Kelowna and Abbotsford.
It says staff have reviewed details provided by the public, assessed local radar data and followed up with aircraft operators and local airports to conclude that the substance did not come from passing planes.
The material is called blue ice because of a distinct blue liquid used to disinfect human waste from washrooms in an aircraft's holding tank, which could leak and freeze before pieces of it fall from a plane.
Fifty-three-year Susan Allan says the smelly bluish-grey substance that fell into her eyes from the open sunroof of her car on May 9 had to be human excrement, and she's contacted Transport Canada to say she disagrees with the findings.
She says it also fell onto her 21-year-old son's face, who was a passenger in the vehicle, and on a car stopped next to them at an intersection in Kelowna.
