Why airplanes still have ashtrays in the bathroom
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Curious, I asked a flight attendant about the ashtrays I'd seen.
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Turns out that all airlines are required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to attach an ashtray to the bathroom door of every plane.
The FAA categorizes bathroom ashtrays as part of each plane's "minimum equipment," meaning that a broken ashtray must be reported and replaced within 3 days.
In 1973, 123 passengers died on Varig Flight 820 traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when the cabin of a Boeing 707 filled with smoke from a fire started by a cigarette.
The cigarette was thrown away in the the trash receptacle of the airplane bathroom causing a major fire in the rear of the jet.
Forty-two years after the Varig Flight 820 tragedy, here is another reminder of not to dispose of cigarettes in the trash receptacle.
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