AUDIO: BATHROOMS STOP WORKING ON DREAMLINER TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT
Eight of the nine bathrooms stopped working a Boeing 787 Dreamliner carrying more than 200 passengers from Amsterdam to Los Angeles on Monday. Soon after takeoff, flight attendants realized that just one bathroom on the plane was working. The pilots first considered heading back to Amsterdam about an hour into the flight, but then for some reason decided to continue. Then two hours later, the jet did a U-turn over Greenland and returned to Amsterdam, meaning passengers had a 6 ½-hour flight to nowhere. The airline then replaced the 787 with another one, which departed from Amsterdam nine hours later than originally scheduled.
* All systems WEREN’T go, and they kept on going.
* The policy is to wait long enough so you waste everybody’s ENTIRE day.
* 200 passengers, one bathroom. That’s a helluva holding pattern.
* There was a line out the door, I bet. And because it was a Boeing plane, I’m being literal.
* Time to add another item to the preflight checklist.
CLIP: Our little “Dreamliner” song.
