Is there a phantom turd terrorist who is causing chaos with airlines, attacking Hong Kong`s Cathay Pacific airline in particular?
This far-eastern airline has been plagued recently with a series of clogged plane crappers that have caused great distress to fecally-challenged passengers. In one case, a flight from Saudi Arabia to Hong Kong had to be diverted to Bombay when the cabin staff realized that none of the aircraft`s ten bogs were operational. Some planes have had to take off with fewer passengers due to out-of-action dumpers, leaving many of them stranded - and irate - at the airport.
Due to the design of planes, one blocked toilet can block all the toilets on that side of the plane, leaving half of them unusable. So, a determined foe only needs to attack and clog up one hopper on each side to have a flight brought down to the nearest available airport for an emergency clean-out and bowel evacuation.
Even though the pans use sixty-eight miles per hour high-speed suction to dispose of stools into a holding tank, it is not enough to suck everything down.
Carolyn Yeung, a Cathay spokeswoman thinks the passengers are to blame at times. “You would be amazed 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."
Cathay Pacific`s Airbus planes are going through what is termed “deep cleaning”, which no doubt involves a lot more than a little hosing out of the commodes and turd tank. Engineers are also installing higher spec piping to try and combat the blockages.
Could this just be a series of strange coincidences, or is there an as-yet-unknown secret organization using turd terrorism to play havoc with international air travel?
