A 13 -hour flight from Chicago to Delhi was forced to return after five hours when 11 of the 12 toilets were blocked on board.
About 300 passengers on board the Air India stood for a nightmare journey when their plane had to go back to Chicago halfway through the flight – all because of the toilet lamps at 35,000 feet.
Flight AI126 left at 10:59 am on March 5 from Chicago O'Hare International Airport, on its way to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.
But after five debilitating hours, the Boeing 777-300er was forced to return the race and fly back to Chicago for another five hours thanks to a catastrophic failure of the lavatories of the plane.
The only functioning toilet of the 12 was on board in Business Class, which had stranded hundreds of Economy passengers for hours without access to a toilet, according to View from the Wing.
And the cause of the 10-hour sanitary fiasco seems to be canvas and plastic is blocked by the toilets that block the waste pipe according to the NDTV.
Images from on board the plane show that chaos erupting while dozens of passengers are standing to listen to a stewardess who explain the terrible situation.
Chaotic images from on board the plane shows dozens of people who stand out of their seats while the plane was forced to return to Chicago
Cloth was depicted that was removed from a pipe attached to the toilet system on board AI-126
Plastic was also washed by the toilets that caused the blockade
Since then, Air India has triggered the incident and only mentioned a 'technical problem' as the reason for the abrupt return of the flight.
When they land in Chicago, tired travelers were normally and provided with hotel accommodation, according to an Air India statement.
“Alternative schemes are being made to fly the passengers to their destination,” the airline said, adding that passengers received full refunds or free again.
A customer said they had booked a first class ticket for their cousin to fly for a wedding in India with the help of their travel lives emits with the Avianca airplane.
A flight tracker showed the flight that a U-Bend made back to Chicago after it had left for Delhi on March 5
Air India has since traced the incident and has only mentioned a 'technical problem' as the reason for the abrupt return of the flight
“We are now in the middle of customer service with Avianca, Lifemiles and Air India to find out how they can get a refund for the Miles ticket,” the frustrated customer told the view from the Wing.
Aviation expert Mark Martin weighed on the bizarre incident, which suggests the times that although one or two hidden toilets are not unusual, a matter of this scale is 'almost impossible' unless there was a serious mechanical failure instead of just passengers flushing the wrong items.
