Broken toilet flush forces Dreamliner to turn back
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A 787 Dreamliner bound for Japan was forced to turn around and fly back to Russia after toilets on the plane refused to flush, operator Japan Airlines said yesterday.
The Boeing plane carrying 151 crew members and passengers left Moscow late Wednesday for Narita Airport in Tokyo but returned two hours later, a JAL spokesman said.
“It was hit by trouble — toilets became unable to be used and the device to heat meals also had a problem,” he said.
The glitches were believed to be due to an electrical fault but had nothing to do with the plane’s batteries, he added.
The flight time between Moscow and Tokyo is around 10 hours.
Boeing’s 787 lightweight plane, hailed for its fuel-efficiency but marred by years of production delays, was grounded globally in January after lithium-ion batteries overheated on two different planes, with one of them catching fire while parked.
JAL and its Japanese rival All Nippon Airways, the single biggest operators of the Dreamliner, have put their fleets back into service. JAL resumed Dreamliner flights in June after fixing the batteries.
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