Posted on 04/01/2024 8:46:08 AM PDT by libh8er
A United Airlines flight was forced to turn around when the contents of a broken toilet poured into the aircraft's cabin.
United Flight 59 took off from Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday afternoon and was headed for San Francisco, California, before it had to reverse course a couple of hours into the flight, according to German news outlet Bild.
The contents of at least one of the toilets overflowed from the tank.
The Boeing 777 circled over the North Sea as the flight crew attempted to figure out if the problem could be resolved before it was eventually flown back to Frankfurt.
"On Friday, March 29, United Flight 59 returned to Frankfurt following a maintenance issue with one of the aircraft’s lavatories," a spokesperson for United Airlines told the U.S. Sun.
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Our regulatory agencies, having been bought and paid for by the airlines, will continue to look the other way until a crash occurs. Then they will announce they are shocked!, shocked! to discover that maintenance was ignored.
Must been the chalupa.
Or too many DEI ( didn’t earn it ) hires.
DEI don’t do windows or empty toilets
Not to mention a train to Europe as AOC suggested a few years ago!
btt
“United flight to San Francisco diverted after odor fills cabin..”
Democrats on board.
Back in my flying days, I might have drilled a few into the seat cushions.
I always wanted to take the train to Hawaii.
It would if it were an emergency. Airlines typically get their non emergency work done at their own hubs where it costs less as opposed to paying a foreign contractor. Toilets don't suddenly break overnight especially on a plane that costs 100s of millions of dollars. SFO maintenance may have been aware of the problem and chose to defer it, or worse may not have caught it during scheduled inspection. Notice how most of United's problems of late involve flying in or out of SFO where their largest maintenance facility is located.
Maintenance.
MAINTENANCE.
MAINTENANCE
Maintenance is the AIRLINE'S responsibility, not the manufacturer.
Oh gross. Flying used to be so nice. Not anymore.
Some more beans Mr Taggert?
Obligatory ‘Another Boeing, of course’ so the Boeing social media team can be triggered.
Well, they definitely blew that one. The costs rose considerably by that decision. Do yo u know who makes that decision, the pilot?
Maybe the PIAPS was onboard...LOL. /s
The captain has the overall authority for go/no-go but he may not have been aware of the problem. That's the responsibility of this group United Operations. I see they have a woman boss at the top, Maria Deacon, whose pronouns are "She/Her" something we wouldn't have guessed from her name Maria.
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