Broken toilet forces plane with 85 plumbers aboard to turn around

January 30, 2018, 10:49 AM

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.

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January 30, 2018, 10:54 AM

justjoe

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

January 30, 2018, 10:59 AM

RogueJSK

quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
So many plumbers on a plane and it has to turn around because of toilet trouble

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

January 30, 2018, 11:00 AM

darthfuster

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

January 30, 2018, 11:03 AM

chellim1

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
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January 30, 2018, 11:09 AM

gpbst3

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.

January 30, 2018, 11:22 AM

egregore

How did so many plumbers come to be on the plane all at once? Convention, trade show?

January 30, 2018, 12:08 PM

greco

Most likely no one wanted to go check the plumbing outside. I sure wouldn’t volunteer.

January 30, 2018, 12:28 PM

Balzé Halzé

quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
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.

January 30, 2018, 12:39 PM

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January 30, 2018, 12:42 PM

Rey HRH

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

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.