A British Airways flight to Dubai returned to Heathrow in the UK shortly after take-off because someone did a smelly poo in the toilet.
Abhishek Sachdev tweeted; ‘Insane. Our BA flight to Dubai returned back to Heathrow because of a smelly poo in the toilet.’
He later explained to a newspaper; “The pilot made an announcement requesting senior cabin crew and we knew something was a bit odd. Then, about 10 minutes later he said, ‘You may have noticed there is a quite pungent smell coming from one of the toilets which is due to liquid fecal excrement.'”
Ewww… ‘Liquid fecal excrement,’ did he really have to describe it?!
Anyway, the flight had been up about 30 minutes before, what was described as, the explosion in a Mars Bar factory incident in the toilets and returned to Heathrow.
Good old Radio 1 in the UK interviewed a BA worker who explained “When you’re up at that altitude the cabin has to be pressurised, so the problem is that anything like that is actually a health and safety problem because only 50 percent of the air is being recycled and cleaned.”
BA themselves have since said, “A decision was taken to return for the safety and comfort of our customers on board. We are very sorry for the discomfort to our customers and we provided them with hotel accommodation and rescheduled the flight to depart the next day.”
So, next time you sit on an airplane toilet with a squirty bottom, remember, you could be bringing down the entire aircraft! Holy shit!