OH, CRAP: United flight diverted after toilet reportedly overflows

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A San Francisco-bound flight was forced to turn around when the contents of a broken toiled poured into the aircraft’s cabin.

United Airlines flight 59 took off from Frankfurt, Germany, last Friday afternoon and was en route to San Fran before it was forced to reverse course a few hours into the flight, according to German news outlet Bild.

At issue? The contents of at least one of the toilets overflowed from the tank.

The Boeing 777 circled over the North Sea as the flight crew tried to figure out if the problem could be resolved, before flying back to Frankfurt.

“On Friday, March 29, United Flight 59 returned to Frankfurt following a maintenance issue with one of the aircraft’s lavatories,” a spokesperson for United Airlines told the U.S. Sun.

Passengers were offered hotel rooms for the night and were rebooked on other flights the following day, the spokesperson said.

It’s the latest in a string of incidents for United Airlines in recent weeks.

Several passengers on a recent flight from Israel to Newark were hospitalized after the aircraft, a Boeing 777-20, was forced to divert to New York’s Stewart International Airport due to high winds.

Earlier in March, a flight headed for San Francisco had to return to Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport in Australia due to what the airline called a “maintenance issue.” Video that circulated appeared to show fluid leaking from the wheel area during takeoff.

Prior to that, a Boeing 777-200 lost a wheel while taking off from San Francisco on a flight bound for Japan and was diverted to Los Angeles.

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