Originally Posted by
flatlander
Blue ice tends to be reported because the waste valve leaks slightly, the dribbles freeze in cruise, then the frozen lump detaches and lands on some luckless ground dweller and they tell the local press.
Slightly leaking dribbles that freeze in cruise with the frozen lump landing on someone's roof causing a four foot hole down to the floor of the house seems to be a chunk slightly larger and heavier then just some dribbling along the waste valves.
Sorry I can't find a recent report on this crappy subject, and it's now time for breakfast here, so I'm off of it for a while.
bj-21.