Pakistan Airlines Flight Diverted After All Toilets Blocked

Published: November 21, 2016

I’ve been on my fair share of flights with one or two toilets being inoperable. However, that doesn’t even begin to compare to what happened to last Friday’s Pakistan International Airlines flight from Toronto to Lahore, which was operated by a Boeing 777-200.

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The flight had to divert to Manchester because all of the plane’s toilets became blocked — ouch! Here’s the note posted by PIA’s spokesperson regarding the flight:

PIA's Toronto-Lahore flight PK-798 has been diverted to Manchester as its toilets got choked, due to something solid thrown by passengers. pic.twitter.com/GfqV8SoLSL

— Cultural Maverick (@CulturalMaverik) November 19, 2016

In the end the flight landed in Lahore about five hours late, though I guess they had no other option.

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I actually wasn’t aware that this could happen to a 777, that one toilet getting choked up could lead to the same thing happening to all of them. Since that’s the case, I’m sort of surprised this doesn’t happen more often.

What a story. It certainly makes my Pakistan Airlines flight from Manchester to New York a few months back look uneventful by comparison.

(Tip of the hat to Geoffrey)

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mister curious Guest

November 22, 2016, 12:41 am

How do people not understand that if it doesn't come out of your body and if it's not toilet paper, then it doesn't belong in the toilet? Maybe there is a need to include this vital information in the pre-flight announcements?

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AlexS Diamond

November 21, 2016, 3:46 pm

The comments from the airline seem to indicate that this failure was caused by passenger abuse. I'm not familiar with the 777, but I know on the widebody Airbus aircraft, usually the right and left side lavs are on separate systems, with a pump system to redistribute the waste between sides for weight/capacity issues if need be. I forget which aircraft it was, but my parents were on a DL flight in September or October where the lavs became inoperable mid-flight. It was a <3 hr flight so the flight just continued, but I would have hated being a pax with GI issues or a bad case of the after effects Taco Tuesdays on that plane.

Willy Guest

November 21, 2016, 11:16 am

Luckycoins, I don't want to accuse you of resting on your laurels but if there was a post worthy of a more pithy headline this was it. "Manchester cleans Pakistanis toilets" "Diaper forces down Pakistani jet" "Boeing jet unable to handle Pakistani loads" etc....

MxPower Guest

November 21, 2016, 10:15 am

Boeing generally seems to have trouble with this. Especially the 747-8 is often causing trouble with the toilets.

jeff Guest

November 21, 2016, 9:59 am

a big dirty diaper or "depends" could do it

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