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How many plumbers does it take to fix an airplane toilet?

It’s a joke with no punch line, as 85 plumbers on a Norwegian flight headed for Germany discovered Saturday when their plane had to return to Oslo because of a broken toilet, reported The Independent. The flight, which departed Oslo bound for Munich, turned back at the Swedish border.

“We would have liked to fix the restrooms, but unfortunately it had to be done from the outside and we did not take the opportunity to send a plumber (out) at 10,000 meters,” Frank Olsen, a plumbing company CEO aboard the flight, told Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.

“So many plumbers on a plane and it has to turn around because of toilet trouble – there’s good humour in that,” plumber Hans Christian Odegard told the publication.


Once back on the ground, the problem was fixed and the Boeing 737 resumed its interrupted flight, arriving in Munich about three hours late, a Norwegian spokesperson told The Telegraph.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/nat...ml#fmp#storylink=cpy




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The whole story is in the title of your post-- very funny!


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So many plumbers on a plane and it has to turn around because of toilet trouble


It's like raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain on your wedding day...

 
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I'll bet it was stuffed full of legos....



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I dont know how long the flight was but couldnt they have taken a vote and just made the flight. The time to turn around and get a new plane would have to take more time.


 
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How did so many plumbers come to be on the plane all at once? Convention, trade show?
 
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Most likely no one wanted to go check the plumbing outside. I sure wouldn’t volunteer.




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So many plumbers on a plane and it has to turn around because of toilet trouble


It's like raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain on your wedding day...



What's ironic is that she sang an entire song entitled Ironic, but the song had nothing to do with irony.

At least the plumber story is an example of irony.


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I like to imagine hearing Harris’ accent in my head as he said what he said about having humor in the situation.



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