An Air France plane en route to Paris from Brazil was forced to make an emergency return to Rio de Janeiro because several of the aircraft’s toilets did not work.
The Boeing 747 airplane with 443 passengers on board departed Rio at 4:20 pm Tuesday.
AFP reported that two-and-half hours into the flight, the pilot made a decision to return to Rio after it was learned that at least six of the plane’s toilets were out of order. It returned to Rio six hours after taking off.
Air France said that completing the 11-hour flight without properly working facilities would have caused “great discomfort for our passengers”.
