US airline makes emergency pit-stop for bathroom break

Plane's toilets stopped working, inconveniencing passengers

A US passenger flight from New York to Seattle made a pit-stop in Billings, Montana, on Saturday after its toilets stopped working – and the passengers could not endure it, The Billings Gazette reported.

The Delta flight’s toilets “ceased functioning, with passengers queuing up and indicating they needed to visit the toilet,” said the incident report. “All toilets were full and passengers needed to ‘go really bad.’”

Hence the plane diverted hundreds of miles to Billings Logan International Airport. But the passenger’s misery did not end there. Due to an unavailable gate, the airplane had to taxi to a cargo area where ground crew rolled a stairway for passengers to “disembark to find relief of built-up pressures,” according to Delta’s report.



Director of aviation and transit at Billings Kevin Ploehn said “ground crews escorted the passengers safely into the terminal where they could do their business and wait while the plane’s toilets were serviced.”

“The plane was also refueled so it could take off again,” he added.

“I’ve heard of flights getting diverted, not here, because toilets overflowed and that blue water was rolling down the aisle,” Ploehn said. “That can’t be very pleasant.”