Lavatory Archives

Toilet crisis at 30,000 feet: Passengers forced to use bottles on a Virgin Australia flight after lavatory failure | World News

Passengers on a Virgin Australia flight from Bali to Brisbane faced an unprecedented mid-air crisis when all the plane’s toilets failed, forcing travellers to improvise in humiliating and unsanitary conditions. Flight VA50 departed Denpasar International Airport on 28 August with only two functioning lavatories, as a rear toilet was already out of service. Midway through […]

US flight attendant sentenced to prison: Estes Carter Thompson filmed underage girls in aircraft lavatory, taped phone under toilet seat

An American Airlines flight attendant was sentenced to 18 1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for filming girls inside the airplane’s toilet.Estes Carter Thompson, 37, had confessed in March to taping his phone to the airplane’s toilet lid, according to the New York Post. He filmed about five underage girls as young as seven years […]

Lufthansa plane flies without a pilot for 10 minutes; captain in lavatory, co-pilot loses consciousness

A Lufthansa plane flew for 10 minutes without any pilot. (File photo) In a bizarre and frightening mid-air incident, a Germany to Spain Lufthansa plane, carrying nearly 200 passengers, flew for 10 minutes without any pilot as the first officer lost consciousness and the captain was in the washroom.The incident took place last year but […]