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Flight carrying 85 plumbers forced to turn back over broken toilets

Cydney Henderson
The Republic | azcentral.com
A Norwegian Air Shuttle flies near Oslo airport.

A Norweigan flight with dozens of plumbers on board went down the toilet.

The Norwegian Air Shuttle flight was carrying about 85 plumbing industry workers to Munich for a trade event, Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet reported.

Ironically, the plane was forced to turn around because of toilet issues onboard.

"So many plumbers on an aircraft and it has to turn back due to toilet trouble. That is enough to make you laugh," plumber Hans Christian Ødegård told Dagbladet.

The flight left Oslo Airport Saturday morning for a two-hour journey to Munich.

However, the flight was forced to turn around at the Swedish border about 15 minutes after takeoff because the toilets were out of order.

The flight data website Flight Tracker shows the plane’s route. It touched back down a little more than an hour after departing.

We know what you're thinking — why couldn't the aircraft full of plumbers fix the lavatory?

"We’d have gladly fixed the toilets, but it must unfortunately be done from the outside and we didn’t want to take a chance on sending out a plumber at 10,000 meters altitude," Frank Olson, CEO of a plumbing company aboard told the the Norwegian newspaper.

 

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