A United Airlines flight from Frankfurt to San Francisco was forced to divert back to Germany after one of the toilets started to flood shortly after takeoff, and raw sewage leaked down the aisle, with passengers reporting a nauseating smell that permeated the entire cabin.
One of the passengers on United flight UA59 on Friday said that even before takeoff, the flight attendants had warned them that two of the ten lavatories onboard the Boeing 777-300 would be out of action for the entire 11-hour flight to California due to a maintenance issue.
Once the six-year-old aircraft was airborne, however, things quickly went from bad to worse as the out-of-action lavatories started to flood as the plane was still making its ascent to cruising altitude for the transatlantic crossing.
As raw sewage started to leak into the cabin from the flood lavatory, the pilots entered a holding pattern over the North Sea for the coast of the…
