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Toilet Malfunction Diverts Transatlantic Flight
Ryan Boyd December 28, 2016
An OpenSkies flight was forced to divert to Ireland’s Shannon Airport (SNN) on Monday after a malfunction in the Boeing 767-300’s lavatory made the toilets unusable. The pilot made a request for an unscheduled landing after passengers aboard the flight reported an “urgent need” to use the airport’s toilets.
To read more on this story, go to Telegraph.
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The linked article doesn't make it clear whether all or just half of the toilets were out. The reason I wonder: I was on the same type of plane (767-300) on an AA flight DFW-ZRH half a dozen or so years ago when half the toilets failed (apparently half the toilets on the plane were on one system and half on the other system), and they diverted us to JFK. Unfortunately, by that time it was way past midnight and there was no one there to fix the plane quickly and so it had to be cancelled as such (and passengers rebooked). What I don't know if the toilets on all 767-300s are divided up into two systems or not.