IN Air India flight forced to return to US over clogged toilets in 10-hour debacle: reports

Story by Ronny Reyes • 58m • 2 min read

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.


An Air India flight bound for Delhi had to turn around nearly five hours into its trip following mass toilet clogging. FlightAware


Passengers said 11 out of the 12 toilets on board broke down and became inoperable. NurPhoto via Getty Images

“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.


The plane was forced to fly five hours back to land at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport. AFP via Getty Images

“We’re now in the midst of customer service hell with Avianca, Lifemiles and Air India to figure out how to get a refund for the miles ticket,” the frustrated client told View From the Wing.

Air India didn’t t immediately respond to The Post’s request for additional information on the incident.

It’s not uncommon for airplane toilets to get clogged, with the issue typically bubbling up when passengers flush unauthorized items down the pipes.

Even just one or two clogged toilets is enough to trigger a flight crew to turn the plane around and land due to the limited number of lavatories available.
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[DeeDee Megadoodoo]

Seriously, what is the deal with Indians and shit? A friend of mine went to India for some reason and he said the whole place smelled like a toilet.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Seriously, what is the deal with Indians and shit? A friend of mine went to India for some reason and he said the whole place smelled like a toilet.

This may be more than just pajeets being pajeets, apparently there’s been an odd number of weird ‘sabotage’-like incidents around Air India, even bomb threats.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/air-india-toilets-clogged-at-40000-feet-among-airlines-bizarre-troubles/3694720/?amp=1

But Air India's concern is more than just plumbing. In October, NBC News cited Indian authorities had enough after fake bomb threats against almost 100 flights at the time.

The Air India bomb scares continue to pile up. On Monday there was a bomb scare targeting an Air India flight to New York. That hoax threat was also found in a bathroom and caused the 777 to return to Mumbai.

"This is on a scale that no other airline in the world, that's seen. And what's remarkable about this, we don't have a set of really compelling theories about what's causing this. Perhaps general outrage by the public, perhaps competition from another airline, where there's some internal sabotage could be related to geopolitical tensions," said Schwieterman.

Some type of conspiracy? Paper thin excuse for Indian culture? Who knows?

 

[Snekposter]

Do you really want radioactive shit fallout floating around everywhere?

A quite dangerous, but ultimately short-term hazard compared to the longer-term and ultimately much worse issue of those two countries continuing to exist and shit up the world.

 

[Quence]

I slaved over this artwork for a week before I was satisfied that it captured the spirit and grace of a noble Air India Flight.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

I slaved over this artwork for a week before I was satisfied that it captured the spirit and grace of a noble Air India Flight.

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Plane has polio, saar. Only one wing is working and this shit it is all more polio seasoned with turmeric and cumin, if you would be most kind. We are only discharging over dalit areas as well as Detroit and Chicago. No sahib saars will be harmed.

 

[Snekposter]

We are only discharging over dalit areas as well as Detroit and Chicago.

Joke's on you, nobody in Detroit would notice a cloud of shit falling from the sky.

 

[Town Drunk]

So Indians didn't know how to use a toilet? Imagine my shock.

Mildly relevant, I used to work for a cleaning company and one place we did was a factory full of Mexicans (probably all illegal). Plumbing in Mexico is so bad they can't flush paper, so they kept the tradition by wiping their ass and throwing it in the garbage can. The smell and the flies was unimaginable.

 

[Instant_Pot_User]

Plumbing in Mexico is so bad they can't flush paper, so they kept the tradition by wiping their ass and throwing it in the garbage can. The smell and the flies was unimaginable.

This shit (lol) is absolutely barbaric.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

So Indians didn't know how to use a toilet? Imagine my shock.

Mildly relevant, I used to work for a cleaning company and one place we did was a factory full of Mexicans (probably all illegal). Plumbing in Mexico is so bad they can't flush paper, so they kept the tradition by wiping their ass and throwing it in the garbage can. The smell and the flies was unimaginable.

The fuck? I’ve been to shitty Mexican border towns and they had toilet paper. Where did you get these Mexicans, the retard daycare or something?

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Seriously, what is the deal with Indians and shit? A friend of mine went to India for some reason and he said the whole place smelled like a toilet.

Indians have a very weird perception of Sanitation, it seems very much like an "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" approach to it. If you have trash, and the trash needs to be disposed of, just toss it over something or flush it down somewhere, and it might as well be gone forever. The trash lined streets in India don't exist to the average Indian just because they don't really bother to look at them. Shit thrown into the Ganges washes downriver, so its basically not a problem because its clearly gone. This applies at every level, to all forms of human waste.

Any consequences to this approach are merely someone elses problem, and they genuinely don't seem to care about the knock on effect, even among the ones who should be able to understand it. It doesn't even seem to be an IQ thing, even Africans have their shit together better than this, marauding warlords in dresses at least know to dig a latrine and bury their shit. Meanwhile, Designated Shitting Street is genuinely not a meme.