Flushed with anger, US woman in plane toilet ordeal

Reuters ^ | Jan 21, 2002 | Reuters

[CommiesOut]

Flushed with anger, US woman in plane toilet ordeal

    OSLO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - An American woman had no need to 
fasten her seatbelt on a flight from Scandinavia to the United 
States after a high-pressure vacuum flush sealed her to the 
toilet seat of the transatlantic airliner. 
    The woman filed a complaint with Scandinavian Airlines 
System (SAS) after her ordeal on a Boeing 767 flight last year. 
She got sucked in after pushing the flush button while seated, 
activating a system to clean the toilet by vacuum, the airline 
said on Monday. 
 "She could not get up by herself and had to sit on the 
toilet until the flight had landed so that ground technicians 
could help her get loose," a SAS spokeswoman told Reuters. "She 
was stuck there for quite a long time." 
 ((Inger Sethov, Oslo newsroom, +47 22 42 50 41, fax +47 22 42 
00 18, oslo.newsroom@reuters.com)) 
 
21 JAN 2002 17:44:47
Flushed with anger, US woman in plane toilet ordeal

[CommiesOut]

Orange juice break!

[cactmh]

At least she didn't get sucked into the holding tank!

[r9etb]

"She could not get up by herself and had to sit on the toilet until the flight had landed so that ground technicians could help her get loose,"

Note to self: always bring a supply of beans to the SAS restrooms.....

[breakem]

some one play the national anthem.

[dead]

Gotta have a whole lot of flab down there to form an airtight seal.

Couldn't have been a pretty sight.

[Old Professer]

She should have opened her mouth real wide to let the air through.

[B-bone]

You've just gotta love these slow news days.

[duckman]

This could be a real pain in the a$$. I just had to say that. Could you imagine being found in this position if heaven forbid the plane crashed?

[ArGee]

OK, I'm not enjoying picturing this situation, but here I am imagining what a woman would have to look like to be totally unable to find a way to break the seal that her gluteus-maximus formed with the toilet seat. Like I said, it is not an enjoyable picture.

One wonders how she got the door to the lav closed.

Shalom.

[ArGee]

At least she didn't get sucked into the holding tank!

When you consider how big she would have to have been, little worry about that.

Shalom.

[Dog Gone]

The only possible way that could happen was if she was still sitting on the toilet when she flushed and had thunder thighs that provided an airtight seal.

I hope she brought a magazine to read.

[Loopy]

There hasn't been anything but a slow news day since before Kandahar fell.

[aShepard]

Help, I've fallen, and I can't get up!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Did they provide her with reading material?

[The KG9 Kid]

I suppose it did wonders for her incontinence problem.

I've wished for a toilet like that on some days.

[dead]

I hope she brought a magazine to read.

She probably brought food.

[OWK]

That's gotta suck.

[Christian B]

I suppose it did wonders for her incontinence problem.

The French would pay good money for that kind of machine.

[LibWhacker]

That sucks.