Air India Plane Returned After Plastic Bags And Rags Clog Toilets

[naomi24]

//Air India has confirmed that one of its flights from the US was forced to turn around last week after passengers trying to flush away plastic bags, rags and clothes clogged up most of its toilets.

The plane, which was heading from Chicago to India's capital Delhi, spent several hours in the air before it returned to the US city.

Air India said an investigation later found "polythene bags, rags and clothes that had been flushed down and stuck in the plumbing" of the plane's toilets.

The incident has stirred a lively debate on social media, with many Indians weighing in on aeroplane bathroom etiquette.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr42drdkwyxo

 

Flushing plastic and clothes down toilets?  Why?  Just why?

[douglas9401]

Their country is generally regarded as an open sewer with a rubbish dump on the side and of course they want the rest of the world to feel like home when they're on the move?

[naomi24]

//The incident has stirred a lively debate on social media, with many Indians weighing in on aeroplane bathroom etiquette.//

 

I wonder what they're saying on aeroplane bathroom etiquette - or any other bathroom etiquette?

[davebro3]

Seeing as 50% don't have toilets they probably have no idea how to use them.🤣 Damn savages.

(Maybe we should send more foreign aid money & some plumbers.)

[Old_Geezer]

It takes just one idiot...

 

Pity they can't identify the culprit(s), there's a lot of cost they are responsible for.

[barry1010]

Someone soiled themselves 

[naomi24]

Barry, eight of the twelve toilets were unusable.

[237SJ]

I would imagine that it was a build up over time and not something that was caused on one flight.

[Khandro]

They should not be allowed out in public, let alone on an aeroplane.

[Khandro]

237sj The bogs are cleaned out after every flight.

[237SJ]

Khandro - yes I know but there might be some interconnecting pipework (I know there is with the sinks) that has blocked over time and backed up to all the loos.

[douglas9401]

Special pleadings your honour. 🙄

[Khandro]

It's not a pretty subject before lunch (or after!) but many oriental gentlemen wont sit on toilet seats, some - the more acrobatic- climb up and crouch with their feet on the seat.

Others might place plastic bags on the seat and then flush it down when they are finished.