This is not an April Fool’s Day joke. Or maybe it is, just not intentionally.
On Friday, United Airlines Flight 59, from Frankfurt, Germany, bound for San Francisco, had to divert back to Frankfurt due to an inflight emergency. The emergency? An overflowing toilet, following which the poop really hit the fan.
United Flight 59 took off from Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday afternoon and was headed for San Francisco, California, before it had to reverse course a couple of hours into the flight, according to German news outlet Bild.
The contents of at least one of the toilets overflowed from the tank.
“On Friday, March 29, United Flight 59 returned to Frankfurt following a maintenance issue with one of the aircraft’s lavatories,” a spokesperson for United Airlines told the U.S. Sun.
Passengers aboard the flight were offered hotel rooms for the night and rebooked on other flights the…
