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Malfunctioning toilets cause Delta flight to make emergency landinghalfway through flight to Seattle
When you really gotta go, the plane’s gotta land.
A Delta Airlines flight from Kennedy Airport had to make an emergency pit stop in Montana so passengers could take a much- needed bathroom break, officials said Wednesday. Malfunctioning bathrooms on the Boeing 757 caused a real emergency Saturday — forcing the plane to land at Billings Logan International Airport more than halfway through the six-hour flight to Seattle. “All toilets were full and passengers needed to ‘go really bad,’” according to a Delta incident report uncovered by the Billings Gazette. Once they landed relief was still nowhere in sight — because of the unscheduled stop, no gates were available for the plane, which had to be taken to a cargo area to unload several “passengers that needed to find a lavatory very urgently,” according to the report. Ground crews had to bring a rolling stairway to the plane so passengers could rush to the nearest restroom and “find relief of built-up pressures,” the report said. Passengers were allowed to get back on the plane and continue on their way once the toilets were fixed and the plane was refueled, Kevin Ploehn, the Billings director of aviation and transit, told the paper. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...toilets-delta- flight-emergency-landing-article-1.3680644 |
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