Apparently the problem could only be fixed from outside and the airline didn't want to ask a plumber to step outside at 35,000 feet.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/...9.html#fmp
Airliner Carrying 85 Plumbers Forced to Turn Around Due to Toilet Trouble |
A Boeing 737 airliner carrying 85 plumbers from Norway to a plumbing convention in Germany was forced to turn around and return to Oslo because the plane's toilet backed up.
Apparently the problem could only be fixed from outside and the airline didn't want to ask a plumber to step outside at 35,000 feet. http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/...9.html#fmp
Those high standards and lucky European residents down below of today, along the routes. Air travel wasn't that considerate during WWII. All sorts of frosty stuff would tumble from the skies...
And When Nature Calls: One problem of long missions was the need to empty our bladders at least once. Most of the Fortresses had a 'piss tube' in the nose section, which was convenient for the navigator and bombardier. This consisted of a slender hose with a funnel shaped end which was fitted to an aperture in the floor. As urine was run through the tube it turned to ice and dropped like topaz coloured hail to the ground, I liked to imagine every time I urinated over Germany, my acidulous projectile would plink on some Nazi burgher's Aryan nose. |
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