Zurich, Switzerland - A Miami bound Swiss International Air Lines flight had to return to the departure airport in Zurich when the crew noticed the all toilets in the aircraft were broken.
On December 20, a SWISS International Airlines flight from Zurich to Miami was forced to return after three hours from the departure due to the broken toilets.
The aircraft was over Atlantic, west of Ireland, when the problem was discovered. The pilots of the SWISS Airbus A330-300 decided to return to Zurich when the problem was reported by the cabin crew.
Technicians fixed the broken toilets of the aircraft at the Zurich Airport. The problem was identified as a defect in the wastewater system, which took around four hours to fix.
The flight eventually took off from Zurich for Miami again with eight hours of schedule delay.
“Of course, it’s very unpleasant when something like this happens,” a Swiss International Air Lines spokesperson told the Swiss news agency Keystone-SDA.