The pilots of a TAP Air Portugal flight from Lisbon to Nice in the Côte d’Azur got themselves into a very confusing conversation with air traffic control after they tried to ask for an expedited approach for landing when all of the toilets onboard stopped working. The request from the pilots of the Embraer E190…

The plane’s toilets weren’t working. The air traffic controller understood “pilots” for “toilets.” You can read the transcript or listen to the voice recordings.

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
    11·
    8 days ago

    I thought maybe the pilot had an upset stomach and had warned others near the lavatory, “You all need to get out of here because I’m fixin’ to blow it up.”

    • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 days ago

      “The pilot is dying in that bathroom, I can hear him fighting for his life”