Originally Posted by
GagaPilot
Currently flying a Dash 8. Prior to that I flew a CRJ200. On the Dash the Lav motor is entirely electric (had to pull a circuit breaker a few months back to stop the motor from running the entire flight!).
I was thinking more along the lines of something like this, that it may be possible for it not to be turned on, either by itself, or as part of a larger system. That also fits in alongside the vacuum pump inoperable, as perhaps all these vacuum pumps are not inoperable because they are broken, but some are inoperable because they are not turned on, as in not turned on to keep people from getting up when they should not.
This is like the boy who cried wolf syndrome. The problem is that sometimes crew will give an inaccurate, but expedient justification. Once a person has caught one of these, then every time the crew says something questionable, the person might assume it is the same.