United flight to San Francisco diverted after odor fills cabin

A United Airlines flight was forced to turn around when the contents of a broken toilet poured into the aircraft's cabin. United Flight 59 took off from Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday afternoon and was headed for San Francisco, California, before it had to reverse course a couple of hours into the flight, according to German news outlet Bild. The contents of at least one of the toilets overflowed from the tank.

On Friday, March 29, United Flight 59 returned to Frankfurt following a maintenance issue with one of the aircraft’s lavatories," a spokesperson for United Airlines told the U.S. Sun. Passengers aboard the flight were offered hotel rooms for the night and rebooked on other flights the following day, the spokesperson said. United Airlines has had several chaotic incidents on their flights in recent weeks.

The week before, a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 lost a wheel while taking off from San Francisco on a flight bound for Japan, and had to be diverted to Los Angeles. "Safety is our highest priority and is at the center of everything we do," United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said in a letter to customers earlier this month. "Unfortunately, in the past few weeks, our airline has experienced a number of incidents that are reminders of the importance of safety.

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