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On 11 April 2017, the World News Daily Report (WNDR) web site published an article positing that many large chunks of frozen human waste fell from an airliner onto the top deck of a cruise ship: The incident described in the WNDR report did not happen. Although leaks in airliner sewage tanks or drain tubes occasionally result in chunks of what is called blue ice (i.e., frozen mixtures of blue waste treatment liquid, water, and human waste) accidentally falling onto the ground from planes passing overhead, the intentional mid-flight dumping of an airliner's sewage tank (as described in the WNDR article) is not possible, as Slate noted: Moreover, the details of the article don't check out: EVA Air does not currently fly to Hawaii from Japan (or from anywhere else), there is no North Pacific Cruise Line, nor does any recognized cruise fleet include a registered ship named Lady of the Pacific. Even absent those other clues, the fact that this story was a fabricated one is evident because its sole source was World News Daily Report, a fake news site whose disclaimer (barely) notes that its content is satirical in nature.
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