As of: February 17, 2024, 1:24 p.m
By: Moritz Bletzinger
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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
Chaotic toilet back and forth on an intercontinental flight.
The Dreamliner turned around, went back on course and then finally gave up.
Amsterdam – First a flourish north of Great Britain, then the U-turn over Greenland.
A test for the passengers of a Boeing 787-10 – for their nerves and their bladder.
Airplane toilets broken – or not?
Toilet chaos in the Dreamliner
Flight KL601 was supposed to go directly from Amsterdam to Los Angeles on February 12th, but after an hour in the air the toilet chaos began in the Dreamliner.
As The Aviation Herald reports, the captain wanted to turn around for the first time.
All the toilets on board had broken down and the plane headed for the departure airport in Amsterdam.
Ten minutes later, one of the toilets suddenly started working again.
Second U-turn.
Are you heading to LA now?
No.
Particularly frustrating: The passengers had to wait another two hours for the third act of the toilet mess.
The toilet failed again over Greenland.
And that was it.
The Boeing flew back to the Netherlands.
Crossing the Atlantic with 200 passengers without a toilet?
That probably wouldn't have gone well.
Crazy route because of toilet chaos: KLM-Boeing turns around twice because of broken toilets
Six and a half hours wasted on the plane.
At least the return flight went smoothly, even if the passengers probably had to squint.
The entire chaos route can be traced 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 KLM confirmed the incident to the flight portal.
However, it is not known why the Boeing's toilets failed.
It is quite possible that the passengers played their part in the toilet misery: airplane toilets can easily become clogged if foreign objects such as paper towels are thrown into them.
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The toilet incident on a flight to Santiago de Chile was much more dramatic and tragic.
A pilot went to the toilet, collapsed and died.
(moe)