Work it out with a pencil...
Posted on 03/09/2025 11:49:43 AM PDT by DFG
This was a crappy flight.
Passengers aboard an Air India flight to Delhi suffered a 10-hour trip to nowhere when the plane was forced to circle back to Chicago because all but one of its toilets allegedly became clogged and inoperable.
Air India Flight 126 was making its way over Greenland on March 5 when 11 out of its 12 toilets broke down, with the only working toilet located in the business class section for some 300 passengers to use, View From The Wing reported.
The extended pee-pee dance began nearly five hours into the 14 hour trip, according to the FlightAware tracker, forcing the airliner to head back to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
“Upon landing at Chicago, all passengers and crew disembarked normally and have been provided with accommodation to minimize inconvenience,” the company said in a statement, citing only a “technical issue.”
“Alternative arrangements are being made to fly the passengers to their destination,” the airliner added.
Air India said that it would offer refunds for the cancellation, but that was little relief to some customers — who claimed they were forced to jump through hoops to get their flights rescheduled or refunded.
One customer said they had booked a first class ticket for their cousin to fly for a wedding in India using their travel LifeMiles with the Avianca airliner.
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It must have been the tandori chicken..
and they all smelled like curry
Oh no. I can just see this...
I left St. Louis Lambert Field on a TWA flight to San Francisco around 1980. Shortly after reaching cruising altitude, the first class cabin toilets overflowed. I was sitting just behind the bulkhead and the blue water came down the carpet into coach. God, it was awful.
We landed in Kansas City and had to wait hours for a new plane. We finally got out of KC around 5 am. I got zero compensation from TWA for that mess.
Guess no airport closer flying wise?🛫🛬
Been on many cross country trains with that problem.
Trains don't dump their tanks over rivers anymore?
Well, ain’t that some...
And BO, just like in the elevators there.
They had to be only an hour or two to London. That makes more sense than turning around.
Yuck! Never heard that. Just don’t flush in the station.
Should have kept going, everyone would be acclimated to India on arrival.
“there’s no place like home...”
That’s a lot of daal bhatt…
Indians have never really understood plumbing. Their civilization is over 5000 years old and yet they never invented the flush toilet. Pretty sad.
“have been provided with accommodation to minimize inconvenience”?!?
I remember riding on a train when I was a kid in the ‘60s and seeing that the toilet just had a little hatch at the bottom of the bowl so the waste would simply drop onto the tracks. No wonder you weren’t supposed to use the toilet when the train was stopped at a station.
Yup. The most disgusting country on the planet. Only 30% of homes have toilets. As for Indian food… what’s in the bowl looks like it just left a bowel.
Work it out with a pencil...
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