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Clogged toilets behind diversion of AI Toronto-Delhi flight to Frankfurt
The New Indian Express Mangaluru
|May 07, 2025
TWO months after a Chicago-Delhi Air India flight earned international notoriety due to blocked toilets, another incident occurred late last week.
This time, it involved a flight from Toronto to Delhi. Air India billed the incident as "a technical issue".
The incident happened on May 2 on board flight AI 188, a Boeing 777 aircraft carrying nearly 250 passengers. According to FlightAware, a flight tracking platform, the flight took off only at 5.53 pm (local time) from Toronto, a delay of 5 hours and 38 minutes. The non-stop flight was airborne when it was diverted to Frankfurt.
The problem surfaced mid-air, forcing the diversion. The clogged toilets were rectified at Frankfurt, and the flight took off two hours later for Delhi.
This story is from the May 07, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Mangaluru.
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