An American Airlines flight traveling from San Francisco to New York City was forced to divert to Chicago after its lavatories reportedly became inoperative on Monday afternoon.
According to flight-tracking website Flightradar24, the cross-country flight departed the Bay Area shortly after 11 a.m. ET and was scheduled to arrive on the East Coast around 4:30 p.m. ET.
The 74 passengers waited for approximately 45 minutes in Chicago as workers put the bathrooms back in service.
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“We never want to disrupt our customers’ travel plans, and we are sorry for the trouble this diversion has caused the 74 passengers on this flight,” American Airlines said in a statement.
This certainly isn’t the first time travelers have been impeded by toilet troubles. Last year, a Hawaii-bound United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after its bathroom reached capacity.
More recently, a broken toilet caused a Delta Air Lines flight carrying Bravo TV host Andy Cohen to turn around over the Atlantic Ocean while a lavatory leak on a United Airlines flight left a Colorado service member with a wet, stinky bag last fall.
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