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Poop mystery deepens

Transport Canada is saying the brown substance that fell from the sky, through a woman's sunroof and resulted in pink eye to both of her eyes wasn’t from a plane. 

Susan Allan and her son were at the intersection of Bernard Avenue and Spall Road on May 9 when a brown, blue liquid fell all over them and their car.

“It was falling from the sky… you could feel the drops hitting you,” she said.

She became inundated with human poo.

“It stunk, it was gross, it felt dirty and right away you could smell poop,” she said.

When she looked up, she saw an aircraft overhead dropping more brown substance as it kept flying.

Since news broke of Allan’s story, multiple people reached out to Castanet saying they also had the same human feces fall on their vehicle.

Transport Canada investigated the incident and tells Castanet the substance did not come from a passing aircraft.

“The department’s review has concluded that these incidents do not meet the description of blue ice and are therefore not aviation related,” said Annie Joannette from Transport Canada.

Allan is now left frustrated and angered.

“It's total B.S., how can they say no leak when it's happened all over the place, they need to be held accountable,” she said.

According to Transport Canada large aircraft do not have the capability of emptying their waste tanks in flight and must be pumped into a tanker truck on the ground.

“In rare cases, malfunctions can cause leakage from the holding tank,” said Joannette. “At high altitudes (low temperatures), this leakage could freeze on the outside of an aircraft."

These pieces of blue ice will either melt or remain in their solid state before hitting the ground, according to Transport Canada.

But Allan’s Doctor stated on May 10 that she had conjunctivitis of both eyes “as a result of being inundated with sewerage from an overhead plane, while driving her car.”

She was prescribed to take Tobradex Ophthalmic for five days and was left with her vehicle that still smelled like feces.



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