New York Post

THIS IS YOUR R CRAP-TAIN . . .

Jet’s bizarre U-turn over toilet problem p

- By TAMAR LAPIN

This was the crappiest flight ever.

Delta Air Lines left 236 passengers aboard a France-bound jet flush with anger Wednesday when it decided to turn the aircraft around halfway into the flight and return to JFK to fix the toilets.

Flight 412 was well on its way to the Mediterran­ean resort city of Nice when the decision was made to abort the trip because there were no usable restrooms.

The grueling flight to nowhere infuriated passengers, including TV personalit­y Andy Cohen.

“We had to turn around to fix the f--king toilet,” the host of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” wrote on Instagram.

“How’s this? . . . Somebody pooped or put something down the toilet that it didn’t go and broke the toilets.”

The Boeing 767 — which has six toilets — took off from the Big Apple shortly after 9 p.m.

All told, passengers spent seven hours and 27 minutes in the air on their boomerang trip, which is 17 minutes longer than it would have taken just to get to France, according to Ian Petchenik, a spokesman for the flight-tracking service FlightRada­r24.

Delta spokesman Adrian Gee confirmed the plane made a Uturn because “the lavatories were inoperativ­e,” and said there “were more resources at JFK” to fix the problem.

Petchenik pointed out that Delta probably doesn’t have a lot of maintenanc­e capabiliti­es at the much smaller Nice Cote D’Azur Internatio­nal Airport.

“They could have ended up having to ferry the aircraft back empty,” he told The Post.

Some Delta frequent-flier members wondered whether they’d be getting a bonus because of the inconvenie­nce.

“Honest question Delta. Do I get extra miles for this???” tweeted Ralph Lentini, along with a flight map showing the plane making an about-face.

The airline didn’t respond to a request for comment about that question.

Even once back in New York, at 4:51 a.m. Wednesday, passengers had to wait for hours to get on another flight to Nice.

Cohen, 50, cheekily filmed other passengers as he waited for the second attempt at his vacation.

“Somewhere among these people is the motherf- -ker who shoved a large blunt object [off] our flight yesterday that forced us to come back to JFK,” he wrote on Instagram.

 ??  ?? Oh, this stinks! Halfway to France on Wednesday, a Delta Air Lines jet hung a U-turn in midair and returned to JFK because of clogged toilets, when it would have been far more practical — and far less infuriatin­g to 236 passengers — to wait until reaching its destinatio­n.
Oh, this stinks! Halfway to France on Wednesday, a Delta Air Lines jet hung a U-turn in midair and returned to JFK because of clogged toilets, when it would have been far more practical — and far less infuriatin­g to 236 passengers — to wait until reaching its destinatio­n.
 ??  ?? ERR LINES: Passenger and TV host Andy Cohen joked on Instagram (above) about his noworking-toilets flight that returned to JFK when it would’ve been faster to proceed to Nice, France.
ERR LINES: Passenger and TV host Andy Cohen joked on Instagram (above) about his noworking-toilets flight that returned to JFK when it would’ve been faster to proceed to Nice, France.

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