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Six and a half hours in the air and then back at the departure airport: a KLM flight fell victim to the toilet.
(Symbolic image) © Richard Wareham/Imago/Screenshot/Flightradar24
Once in a circle north of Great Britain, later the U-turn over Greenland.
A toilet chaos in the Dreamliner ended after hours at the departure airport.
Amsterdam – Initially, flight KL601, a Boeing 787-10, appeared to be taking a normal route from Amsterdam to Los Angeles on February 12th.
But after just an hour of flight, the toilet problems in the Dreamliner began.
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The captain decided to turn back for the first time near the Faroe Islands because all the toilets on board were out of order.
Back to Amsterdam.
Or not?
A crazy toilet back-and-forth began, as
The Aviation Herald
reports.
Surprisingly, one of the toilets worked again ten minutes after changing course.
So, back on route.
However, the hope that the flight would finally lead to Los Angeles was disappointed.
After another two hours of waiting, the toilet failed again over Greenland.
This led to the final decision to fly back to the Netherlands.
Boeing flies a confused route and lands at the departure airport
A flight across the Atlantic with 200 passengers and without a functioning toilet would probably not have ended well.
The passengers spent a total of six and a half hours on the plane just to land back at the departure airport.
The return flight at least went without any further incident, although the passengers probably had to hunker down.
The entire chaotic flight route can be tracked on
Flightradar24
.
No, but... oh!
The toilets on flight KL-601 first malfunctioned, then worked again and finally didn't work: data from Flightradar24 shows the crazy course of the flight.
© Screenshot/Flightradar24
Airline confirms toilet incident: Why do airplane toilets break down?
The airline KLM confirmed the incident to the flight portal.
However, there is no information as to why the Boeing's toilets failed.
It's entirely possible that the passengers themselves could have contributed to the toilet problems.
Airplane toilets can easily become clogged when foreign objects such as paper towels are thrown in.
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