Michel Lotito: Meet The Man Who Ate An Entire Airplane

• Michel Lotito was a French man that had the ability to eat extraordinarily weird items

• At age 6, he fell in love with eating weird items when he ate an entire glass cup

• Between 1978 to 1980, Lotito an entire aircraft by cutting it up and chewing it in bits.

Everyone loves a good meal, some more than others. Some people can’t resist the urge to have a bite of any food item around and for others, it goes beyond food.

Meet Michel Lotito, a man born in Grenoble, France, in 1950. He is known for consuming an entire aircraft within the space of 2 years.

How it began

Lotito was born with the ability to eat none organic materials right from his childhood.

At the age of 6, he ate an entire tumbler to surprise his friends and he hasn’t looked back since then.

He graduated to other weird items like a glass chandelier and beds. At the age of 16, he went public and people were paying to watch him eat weird stuff.

During various performances, he consumed items like plastic, metals, and glass.

Eating disorder

It was later discovered that Michel Lotito did not just eat weird items to impress people. He had an eating disorder called pica.

Although most people suffering from pica find plastic and sand as food, Lotito was drawn to metal.

Lotito got so used to eating metals that soft foods like bananas and porridge made him sick.

He was nicknamed “Monsieur Mangetout” and some of the popular items he ate included bicycles, a Supermarket cart, and an airplane.

Lotito eating plane

Between 1978 to 1980, Lotito took on the challenge of consuming an airplane, Cessna 150.

This aircraft was 1100 kilograms of aluminum, steel, rubber, vinyl, and glass.

Michel Lotito consumed this aircraft by guiding the pieces down his throat with mineral oils as a lubricant.

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At some point, he grounded the plane parts into powder and mixed them with his food.

Scientists struggled to figure out how his body adjusted to eating such items.

Monsieur Mangetout, Michel Lotito eventually died in 2007 at the age of 57, of natural causes.