Air France caught short over broken loos
An Air France plane en route to Paris from Brazil was forced to make an emergency return to Rio de Janeiro because several of the aircraft’s toilets did not work.
The Boeing 747 airplane with 443 passengers on board departed Rio at 4:20 pm Tuesday.
AFP reported that two-and-half hours into the flight, the pilot made a decision to return to Rio after it was learned that at least six of the plane’s toilets were out of order. It returned to Rio six hours after taking off.
Air France said that completing the 11-hour flight without properly working facilities would have caused “great discomfort for our passengers”.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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