The trip was almost very uncomfortable for the 300 passengers of a Boeing 777 from the Austrian company Austrian Airlines. The plane was forced to turn around on Monday, two hours after takeoff from Vienna, when five of the eight toilets in the cabin were out of order, we learned from the company on Tuesday. The flight to New York was supposed to take eight hours.
But after noticing a technical breakdown of the flushes on board, the crew resolved to turn around, explained a spokeswoman to AFP who had never experienced a similar incident on board. from an Austrian Airlines aircraft, she said. The breakdown having been repaired, the Boeing resumed service on Tuesday, and the passengers were boarded on other planes.