[新聞] 國泰航空航機廁所謎樣故障導致轉降

[nyrnu (Air/Rail/Sea enthusiast)]

國泰航空航機廁所謎樣阻塞故障導致轉降

11/17 CX利雅德往香港航班,飛機起飛後沒多久發現機上10間廁所全壞掉掉了.
因此機長轉降到孟買小便 (小便二字乃自行想像添加 ^^).

簡單8小時航程結果變成18小時的大延誤.

另2件類似案例則是11/9 Rome-HKG 及 11/19 Dubai-HKG 航班.

CX內部準則說明了每80位Y艙旅客應配置一間廁所.

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Mysterious toilet blockages plague Cathay flights

HONG KONG — Cathay Pacific said Wednesday it has endured a spate of
mysterious toilet blockages on its Airbus fleet, with one packed plane forced
to make an unscheduled landing because it had no working lavatory.

Toilets on the Hong Kong airline's Airbus A330 and A340 planes have been
blocked in three separate incidents over the past 11 days, Cathay spokeswoman
Carolyn Leung told AFP, confirming a report by the South China Morning Post.

One November 17 flight from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia to Hong Kong carrying 278
passengers was forced to divert to Mumbai, when flight attendants discovered
shortly after take-off that none of the plane's 10 toilets was working.

The enforced detour caused an 18-hour delay on what should have been an
eight-hour flight.

The two other flights affected by blocked toilets were from Rome to Hong Kong
on November 9 and Dubai to Hong Kong on November 19.

In both cases, the number of passengers had to be restricted to fewer than
240 when it was discovered before take-off that only toilets on one side of
the plane were functioning.

The exact cause of the toilet blockages remained unclear, the spokeswoman
said, adding that passengers might be partly to blame.

"You would be amazed at what we find in the pipes when we clean the system --
not just face towels but medicine bottles, socks, items of clothing and even
children's stuffed toys," Leung said.

The airline said it has consulted Airbus about the problem and its engineers
are now fitting new pipes and carrying out deep-cleaning treatment on toilets.

Aircraft toilets use high-speed pipes that carry waste at up to 110
kilometres (68 miles) an hour into a holding tank which is emptied between
flights.

Two vacuum systems operate separately on each side of the plane, meaning that
a blockage usually affects all toilets on one side of the aircraft.

Cathay's internal guidelines say the minimum toilet-to-passenger ratio in
economy class should be one to 80.


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