And just last night I was thinking “I need to find another plane turn-around ~ see what the reason is this time.” And then one of you sends me this. Can’t make this stuff up!
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Norwegian flight DY1156 took off from Oslo Airport Saturday, bound for Munich. However, it never reached the Bavarian capital. Instead, it turned back mid-air because its toilets were out of order.
“It is correct that DY1156 from Oslo bound for Munich was forced to turn back to Oslo because a fault was found with the toilets on board. The aircraft circled over Hedmark to burn fuel so that it wasn’t too heavy to land,” Fatima Elkadi, a communications officer with the Norwegian airline told Dagbladet newspaper, as cited by the Local.
But this isn’t just the tale of a plane that didn’t reach its destination. There’s a twist. There were actually some 60 plumbers on the airplane with broken toilets, all of whom were on a business trip with their Norwegian company Rorkjop.
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