Its kind of crazy we don't see more bathroom problems than we do. Especially on such long flights. Its alot of people all using a few bathrooms haha.

Delta flight takes unplanned potty break in Billings, Montana
http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/d ... ca991.html

Reminds me of a time 5 or so years ago I was flying in an AA 757 from LHR to BOS (yes what a miserable way to cross the atlantic). And all the toilets except the one by the 1st class cabin were not functioning. Captain was continuously coming on the loud speaker and basically threatening that he would land the plane in Iceland or Canada if that last toilet stopped working. We understood he was trying to say hold it or face the anger of all your fellow passengers haha. The few brave people that did go the the bathroom after that got glares from all of us. Luckily we made it to BOS....but it was not fun. They even stopped serving beverages when we only had a few hours left. The strangest part was AA never reached out and apologized to any of us. Thank goodness that flight no longer exists with AA.

That sounds like a crappy flight...

RDUDDJI wrote:

That sounds like a crappy flight...

I'm glad they 'canned' it

Wait, I thought only JetBlue had lav issues, and not Delta.

admanager wrote:

RDUDDJI wrote:

That sounds like a crappy flight...

I'm glad they 'canned' it

I'm glad you were able to "head" to BOS. Sounds like the Captain was getting kind of pissy.

All sounds a bit Potty to me.

Puns, sigh. Lets summarise sensibly, the flight took off and then rapidly went down the pan.

Oh man, I can't wait until a certain poster on here tries to spin this...

catiii wrote:

Oh man, I can't wait until a certain poster on here tries to spin this...

Gee, who could you possibly mean?

Well, without waiting for a response and subsequent pro-DL angle/JetBlue dig, I will say that I am really not sure how this one flight became news or worthy of a thread with 20 or so replies (of which I have now added one.) Diversions due to lack of functional lavs are rare, but they do happen and are almost never covered by the media. What made this different?

richierich wrote:

catiii wrote:

Oh man, I can't wait until a certain poster on here tries to spin this...

Gee, who could you possibly mean?

Well, without waiting for a response and subsequent pro-DL angle/JetBlue dig, I will say that I am really not sure how this one flight became news or worthy of a thread with 20 or so replies (of which I have now added one.) Diversions due to lack of functional lavs are rare, but they do happen and are almost never covered by the media. What made this different?

I think someone leaked the internal divert report.

Let's act like adults, now my question is what kind of food were they serving on this flight.

Did they hand out free Metamucil samples in the boarding area? Is Gate Gourmet having a special on chili con carne?

Did they run out of blue juice? How much "displacement" (weight and volume) can the system take before it screams too much?

Perhaps we should move to Tech Ops, I have so many questions.

Might be the first time someone wanted desperately to get to Billings!

A whole new meaning to a Reliever airport term

richierich wrote:

Diversions due to lack of functional lavs are rare, but they do happen and are almost never covered by the media. What made this different?

You'll notice that the story in the OP comes from a local Billings newspaper, not the national media. Diversions for all sorts of reasons make the local news all the time, particularly if there's not much else going on locally that day. If nothing else a flight stopping for a bathroom break makes for a somewhat amusing story for Billings residents to chuckle at. I would guess the humor factor is what makes it worthy of a thread here as well; note that many of the responses are people making jokes about the situation.

pitbosflyer wrote:

Its kind of crazy we don't see more bathroom problems than we do. Especially on such long flights. Its alot of people all using a few bathrooms haha.

Delta flight takes unplanned potty break in Billings, Montana
http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/d ... ca991.html

Reminds me of a time 5 or so years ago I was flying in an AA 757 from LHR to BOS (yes what a miserable way to cross the atlantic). And all the toilets except the one by the 1st class cabin were not functioning. Captain was continuously coming on the loud speaker and basically threatening that he would land the plane in Iceland or Canada if that last toilet stopped working. We understood he was trying to say hold it or face the anger of all your fellow passengers haha. The few brave people that did go the the bathroom after that got glares from all of us. Luckily we made it to BOS....but it was not fun. They even stopped serving beverages when we only had a few hours left. The strangest part was AA never reached out and apologized to any of us. Thank goodness that flight no longer exists with AA.

And what kind of a moron was that pilot? Here is a whole plane load of his company's passengers not having functioning toilet facilities to use on his aircraft .. and he's bullying people about using the lav?

Here is where he should have been apologizing profusely for the bad situation and not addiing more stress to an already uncomfortable situation. D*mn fool.

Just out of curiosity, are the 757 toilets more prone to blockage because of the old swirling blue water they use vs vacuum? Never understood why the 757s has this old system but the 767s don’t.

The article said they were full? Seems weird to me that 4 hours into a flight, the 757’s toilets were full?

I did BOS-SFO for years, mostly on the 757 and never heard of an issue like this. Is this a thing?

There are a variety of reasons why stuff like this happens. Tank doesn't get serviced for whatever reason; mechanical malfunction; etc. Rare but happens. Just like at your home.

At least Billings didn't get a Space Peanut" like Joe Dirt did

Meteor Bert: Well, it ain't a meteor.
Joe Dirt: Yeah, it is. It came out of the sky.
Meteor Bert: Well I'm sure it did but it ain't no meteor. It's a big ol' frozen chunk o' shit.
Joe Dirt: What?
Meteor Bert: Oh yeah, see them airplanes they dump their toilets 36,000 feet. The stuff freezes and falls to earth. We call 'em Boeing bombs.
[chomps teeth]
Joe Dirt: No, that can't be. That's not what it is.
Meteor Bert: Oh, afraid so. See that peanut? Dead giveaway.
Joe Dirt: Uhhh, no, that's a space peanut.
Meteor Bert: No, afraid not. That just a big ol' frozen chunk of poopy.

I recall a time where a family member was flying MSP-AMS on a NW A333. Toilet issue over Hudson Bay; divert to DTW.

jetmatt777 wrote:

Really they should have stopped in DTW. How could DL ignore their best station, DTW would have been the wiser diversion choice.

We all know they would divert to ATL to screw over their DTW customers and further dehub the decrepit DTW hub.

We all know they would divert to ATL to screw over their DTW customers and further dehub the decrepit DTW hub.[/quote]

Funny

jubguy3 wrote:

We all know they would divert to ATL to screw over their DTW customers and further dehub the decrepit DTW hub.

In this case the managers in ATL might decide that DTW is exactly where they want these passengers to leave their, ummm, deposits.

Reminds me of a PS transcon when I worked for UA. Ground forgot to service the potable water and the purser neglected to check the gauge prior to departure. About 2-3hrs out from JFK, water was gone so put comes the hand sanitizer for the labs. Not as “critical” but point being, someone didn’t do their job on the ground and inflight didn’t catch it either.

A passenger put 2 diapers down the toilet, and they ended up becoming frozen in the lav system. Contracted maintenance was able to get one of them out. The 757's have more bathroom issues than other aircraft with vacuum lavs.

tlecam wrote:

The article said they were full? Seems weird to me that 4 hours into a flight, the 757’s toilets were full?

I did BOS-SFO for years, mostly on the 757 and never heard of an issue like this. Is this a thing?

The plane had come in from EDI to JFK, which is a rather long flight. If they forgot to service the lavs in JFK, 4 hours into the next flight sounds about right for the tanks reaching capacity. My guess is they forgot to service the lavs. 757s don’t have nice touchscreen displays where any FA can check to see if the tanks are empty and my guess is that someone forgot to check.

The news article says that they were fixed in Billings. My guess is that there aren’t many spare parts in Billings for a 757 lav system but it is possible something clogged and failed. Not servicing is a more likely cause

Newbiepilot wrote:

The news article says that they were fixed in Billings. My guess is that there aren’t many spare parts in Billings for a 757 lav system but it is possible something clogged and failed. Not servicing is a more likely cause

I would guess the "fixed in Billings" involved emptying the tanks ...

180 people with crossed legs can be quite a problem.

NWDALMSPDTW wrote:

A passenger put 2 diapers down the toilet, and they ended up becoming frozen in the lav system. Contracted maintenance was able to get one of them out. The 757's have more bathroom issues than other aircraft with vacuum lavs.

Really? If this what happened it should be pretty common sense NOT to flush diapers down the toilet. Come on! There's a garbage right in there with you.

jetmatt777 wrote:

Really they should have stopped in DTW. How could DL ignore their best station, DTW would have been the wiser diversion choice.

Guess the bladders/bowels were too full to allow for any backtracking...

When ya gotta go, ya gotta go!

NWDALMSPDTW wrote:

A passenger put 2 diapers down the toilet, and they ended up becoming frozen in the lav system. Contracted maintenance was able to get one of them out. The 757's have more bathroom issues than other aircraft with vacuum lavs.

They are investigating which passenger... but they have nothing to go on.

what a load of crap !

X/$& happens.....


Ok, someone had to say it.