Airplane bathrooms do not have much space and if you have your smartphone in your pocket, there is a chance that the device will fall out of your pocket and dive right into the toilet. The lack of space in an airplane’s lavatory could force you to contort your body into a strange shape that will result in you watching in horror as your handset slips out of your pocket, splashing you in the face as it winds up in the bowl.
“Most phones, like my iPhone 15 Pro, are too big to fit down the hole of an airplane toilet. It was flushing. It was making the scary sound. But my phone was just sitting there. It couldn’t be sucked down because it was too big.”-Ally Case, flight crew, American Airlines
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She admits to something that anyone with a phone that has fallen into any toilet feels. Despite spending plenty of time cleaning the phone until all of the germs were removed, the “clean-freak” said, “Even though I thoroughly cleaned my phone, I still feel like getting a new phone today. Because, eww.”
The next time you board a plane and visit the lavatory mid-flight, be mindful of where your phone is resting in your pocket so that you don’t end up having to fish it out of a dirty toilet.