Nearly the entire cabin of a British Airways Airbus A380 was flooded following a plumbing rupture on the aircraft’s upper deck midway through a Sunday evening flight.
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BA Flight Floods After Trolley Hits Water Pipe on Upper Deck
Jeff Edwards March 18, 2016
When the cabin floor of a British Airways flight from O. R. Tambo International Airport (JNB) in South Africa on Sunday began to fill with water, it soon became clear that flyers on the Airbus A380 bound for London Heathrow Airport (LHR) would be in for a long, soggy journey.
Nicolas Gausserand, a passenger on the flight, told the Daily Mail that things started to go wrong about 90 minutes before the plane was scheduled to land at LHR. “Everything on the floor was totally wet, my feet and my backpack were totally wet,” Gausserand recalled. “Most of the passengers were not wearing shoes at that stage. The crew began putting blankets on the floor. We saw that it was chaos and were overwhelmed by the situation.”
The deluge was caused when a beverage cart damaged a water pipe on the upper deck of the aircraft. The water reportedly flowed unchecked for nearly 15 minutes before the crew managed to get the situation under control. British Airways officials, however, insisted that while the mid-air flood was certainly unpleasant, the passengers were never in any danger.
“A trolley knocked a water pipe and unfortunately it caused a leak on Sunday. Not serious but inconvenient,” a British Airways spokesperson told the Daily Mail. “There was no risk to the aircraft or customers on board. The aircraft landed normally at Heathrow, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience to customers.”
[Photos: Nicolas Gausserand]
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If this incident happened about 90 minutes before landing at LHR, I doubt that "it soon became clear that flyers on the Airbus A380 bound for London Heathrow Airport (LHR) would be in for a long, soggy journey". Way to overdo it with your tabloid-esque writing.