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Oh, ____!

When Toilets Backfire, it's Bad News

Somebody goofed, and the big airliner is down for the count. Nobody wants to be first to go back in, either.

The toilets on airliners empty into special containers, the better to keep the interior of the airplane clean and habitable.

A big boo-boo wa recorded Wednesday, though, when somebody servicing a KLM 'liner fouled up (so to speak), blowing the contents of the holding tanks back into the plane.

Since the aircraft was being serviced, the lavatory doors for at least two toilets were open, and, you guessed it, the, um, stuff got blown throughout the cabin, rendering the airplane unfit for human transportation.

The plane was in Bonaire [anybody else spot the irony?], in the Dutch Antilles, and was supposed to take 282 passengers back to The Netherlands. It's not going anywhere for a while. A KLM spokesman said: "The floor and the seats in the cabin were much too dirty."

Not only are the passengers inconvenienced; there's going to be a big bill to pay, for the cleanup, the loss of use of the airplane, and hotels for the stay-over PAX.

FMI: www.klm.com

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