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An Alaska Airlines plane flying from from Hawaii to Alaska was forced to turn around after a bathroom flooded filling the aisles of the Boeing 737 Max 9 jet with water.
The flight from Honolulu to Anchorage had left the island just after 10pm on Friday night and was 90 minutes into its flight when the forward bathroom of the aircraft suddenly began to malfunction leaking water everywhere.
Rather than continue on the six hour journey to Alaska the captain of Alaska Airlines flight 828 made the decision to turn back to Hawaii for the problem to be fixed.
Video captured by one of the passengers onboard sees flight attendants scrambling to mop up the deluge throwing as many blankets and paper towels onto the floor as they could find.
'There was probably two to four inches of standing water that swooshed out as soon as you opened that front door of the lavatory,' Parker said to Alaska's News Source.
An Alaska Airlines flight from Hawaii to Alaska was diverted back to Honolulu due to a flooded bathroom, filling the aisles with water
Passengers witnessed flight attendants hastily cleaning up the water with paper towels as water kept flowing from a malfunctioning sink
The incident occurred 90 minutes into the flight, prompting the captain's decision to turn back
Flight attendants used whatever paper towel they could find in attempt to mop up the mess
Stacks of paper towels were used to try and stem the flow of water from the bathroom
'I would say an hour and a half into the flight is when we noticed the water and it was significant. The entire floorboards of that airplane were completely wet.'
The issue is believed to have been with a bathroom sink rather than a toilet meaning the water flowing through the plane was clean rather than sewage.
A FlightAware map showed that the plane was in the air for a total of 2 hours, 18 minutes, before safely landing back in Hawaii at 12:30am.
Passengers were ultimately rebooked on other flights as there were no other spare planes to take them to their destination.
The aisles of the plane were left soaked as the water ran down through the entirety of the plane
Paper towels could were strewn all over the floor as flight attendants did their best to mop up
The flight was 90 minutes into its six hour journey to Alaska when the captain decided to turn back
The incident occurred onboard a Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9
In January, an Alaska Airlines flight suffered a near-catastrophe as a plane door blew out at 16,000ft over Portland
Passengers aboard the doomed Alaska Airlines Flight were notified last month they may be considered the 'possible victim of a crime' following the midair blowout incident in January
'We apologize to our guests for the inconvenience this caused and commend the crew for their actions to ensure the well-being and comfort of our guests,' the airline said in a statement.
Alaska Airlines made the headlines at the start of this year after a door plug blew off one of its Boeing Max jets midflight at 16,000ft on January 5 with 171 passengers and crew onboard, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon.
Last month, investigators with the Department of Justice contacted some of the passengers informing them they may be the victim of a crime. It also led to the departure of the CEO of the company Dave Calhoun.
A United Airlines Boeing 777-300ER was forced to turn back to Frankfurt after a broken toilet caused feces to flood into the cabin, emitting a foul odor
The flight was an hour into its journey but technicians were unable to solve the problem so the Boeing 777-300ER returned to Frankfurt in Germany
Friday night's bathroom incident is similar to that experienced by passengers on board a United Airlines flight traveling from Frankfurt, Germany to San Francisco, that saw the Boeing 777-300ER's toilet overflow filling the cabin with a foul-smelling odor.
United Airlines flight 59, was one hour into its 11hr 30min journey to California when the captain of the Boeing 777-300ER decided the best course of action was to return back to Germany rather than continue to fly across the Atlantic.
FlightAware shows the plane circled for a short time over the North Sea to the east of England while the crew weighed up their options. Technicians were unable to find an immediate solution to the problem.
The smell permeated through the entire aircraft shortly after taking off.
Passengers told the contents of the waste tank overflowed and spilled out into the cabin, which only served to worsen the situation.
The aircraft, which is just seven years old, was back on the ground in Germany just two hours after taking off.
'On Friday, March 29, United Flight 59 returned to Frankfurt following a maintenance issue with one of the aircraft's lavatories,' a statement by United read.
'The passengers were provided with hotel accommodations overnight in Frankfurt - and were rebooked on a different flight to San Francisco the next day', the statement added.
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