British Airways plane diverted over "smelly poo"

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British Airways plane diverted over "smelly poo"

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Sorry everyone, I was just trying to get to Dubai.


Foul odour: Passengers were left bemused after the pilot was forced to abort the journey

A British Airways flight was forced to return to England because of a 'smelly poo' left in a toilet.

Councillor Abhishek Sachdev, from Hertfordshire, says he was on the BA flight to Dubai when it was forced to return to Heathrow.

It is understood that cabin crew unsuccessfully tried to fix the problem, but the flight was forced to turn around when the odour became unbearable for passengers.

Coun Sachdev, a town councillor in Herftordshire, tweeted: "Insane! Our BA flight to Dubai returned back to Heathrow because of a smelly poo in the toilet! 15hrs until next flight...britishairways"

The Tory councillor, said the flight departed on time Thursday night and everything seemed fine until the captain made an announcement about 30 minutes after take-off when the seven-hour flight was over Belgium.

Coun Sachdev told the Mail Online: "The pilot made an announcement requesting senior cabin crew, and we knew something was a bit odd.

"About 10 minutes later he said you may have noticed there’s a quite pungent smell coming from one of the toilets.

"He said it was liquid faecal excrement, those are the words he used. He said it’s not a technical fault with the plane, and he was very adamant about that."

Passengers were then told that the plane would be forced to return to London for health and safety reasons, said Coun Sachdev.

He was travelling with his pregnant wife, Rupa, and their two-year-old daughter, Shravani.

It is believed that passengers were due to board another flight, but what was due to be a three-hour wait turned into a 15 hour delay.

Coun Sachdev, who wasn’t seated near the toilet in question, said passengers departed for Dubai yesterday at 1pm.

A British Airways spokesperson told the Welwyn Hatfield Times: "We’re very sorry for the discomfort to our customers.

"We provided them with hotel accommodation and rescheduled the flight to depart the following day’s lunchtime on an alternative aircraft."

The Mirror Online has contacted BA for comment.
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Ok, I will be the first to say it....wow, that's shitty!!
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Let's hope it wasn't the Captain's Log.
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I see no fewer than 3 "Fly Emirates" ads displayed on this thread page.. I wonder if they know what kind of story google is linking their ads to?
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At least they were in a poosition to turd around.
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They probably had to take a pretty big fuel dump before landing
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That big fuel dump would prevent an overweight landing that may have left "skid marks" on the runway :rolleyes:
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A dump so bad it diverted a 747

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Cant make this stuff up. Honestly, I don't even know if this qualifies as something that should be posted here or on some sort of medical forum.

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/someone- ... e=vicefbca
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.

A British Airways flight was forced to turn around and land over the weekend because somebody did a shit so bad the plane was essentially rendered useless. Imagine living your life in the knowledge that you once turded so appallingly that a 747-400 had to turn around and land. Your liquid shit bought a £360-million ($533-million) airplane juddering out of the sky. Imagine looking your loved ones in the face after that. Imagine hugging your mom. You couldn't. Your asshole is essentially a terrorist.

Anyway, the BA flight from Heathrow to Dubai on Saturday had to turn around and flop back down again at Heathrow just 30 minutes into the seven-hour flight because somebody did a toilet crime.

Hertsmere Tory councillor Abhishek Sachdev—who has clearly not heard the "he who smelt it, dealt it" directive—happened to be on the flight, and, as well as tweeting his response ("Insane! Our BA flight to Dubai returned back to Heathrow because of a smelly poo in the toilet! 15hrs until next flight... #britishairways") also spoke to the Daily Mail about the ordeal. Again: imagine making a smell so bad a Tory councillor talks to a national paper about it.
"The pilot made an announcement requesting senior cabin crew, and we knew something was a bit odd," he said. "About 10 minutes later he said, 'You may have noticed there's a quite pungent smell coming from one of the toilets.'

"He said it was liquid fecal excrement. Those are the words he used."

Two things:

i. The informed knowledge of the liquid state of the turd in question sort of suggests the pilot actually went and looked at the mess himself, and, in which case, did he hold his special pilot's hat over his nose?

ii. This question always comes up when someone does a shit so appalling that it might as well not be human. We've all seen a bad shit. We've all been to a pub. We've all traveled on a bus at least once in our lives. Everybody in Britain, at some point, has had to piss at a train station. We've all lifted a toilet seat and, like Pandora's Box, stared into the abyss-like doom of someone else's medically inadvisable droppings. But the question is this: how, and more specifically why, is it possible to shit up and around the rim of a toilet and, side-question, how does one shit up a wall?

Ask me to shit up a wall and I would not know where to start. If I was trying, I do not think I could shit along a vertical pane. But there are people out there who seem to manage it on the regular. Do they go to the doctor immediately after? When you "deposit" something so forcefully that it ricochets right back out again, do you go straight to A&E and say, like, "Hello, doctor, something is very wrong with me," or do you, like, try and walk it off? Also, why does this always happen in public toilets?

Anyway, the flight was rescheduled for the next day, and British Airways made a statement saying, "We're very sorry for the discomfort to our customers," before providing everyone on the flight—including the rogue shitter, presumably, whoever they may be—with overnight hotel accommodation.

Safe travels, rogue shitter. Peace be with your lower intestine.
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If it were me I would have the article framed!
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Imagine being the maintenance guy who drew the short straw that day...
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That is a shitty deal! Good points to ponder, I always wonder who the heck does that sick shit? At least clean up after yourself and turn the fan on, no hotbox'in.
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"Aaaand...go ahead checklist for explosive decompression in the forward lavatory."
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