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Common airplane habits can have dangerous health impact: 3 mistakes to avoid that people often makeExperts have warned that some routine in-flight hygiene habits may increase exposure to bacteria during air travel. According to flight att...- 'Danger' written on tissue paper delays IndiGo's Mumbai-Ahmedabad flight by 8 hours; case filedAn IndiGo flight bound for Ahmedabad faced a significant delay of over eight hours on Wednesday. The disruption occurred after a tissue pap...
- Inside the mounting problems on USS Gerald R. Ford, from sewage failures to crew frustration—here's what we knowSailors on the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier face severe toilet clogs and sewage failures. This is causing significant distress and ange...
- Air India diverted Toronto-Delhi flight to Frankfurt due to clogged lavatories on May 2An Air India flight (AI188) from Toronto to Delhi was diverted to Frankfurt on May 2 after several onboard lavatories became unusable, acco...
- How a Bengaluru-bound flight's bathroom glitch could turn into a $3.4 million problem for Boeing?A passenger’s mid-air ordeal in a SpiceJet flight from Mumbai to Bengaluru—getting trapped in a faulty lavatory—has led to the FAA proposin...
- How aging aircraft, waste and clogged toilets are flushing Air India’s reputation down the drainAir India faces problems with clogged toilets on long-haul flights due to passengers flushing inappropriate items. This has caused several ...
- Air India probe into Chicago-Delhi flight toilet trouble finds plumbing blocked by flushed bags, rags, and moreAir India's flight AI126 from Chicago to Delhi had to return to Chicago after nine hours due to several unserviceable lavatories. The inves...
- Air India flight from Chicago to Delhi returns after 10 hours in air as nine out of ten toilets become non-functionalAn Air India flight from Chicago to Delhi had to turn back after ten hours due to most of its toilets being non-functional. A Boeing 777-33...
- When JRD Tata himself changed toilet papers of all washrooms during an Air India flightJRD Tata, the pioneering industrialist and founder of Air India, was known for his meticulous attention to detail. In one memorable inciden...
- DGCA moves NGT, says impossible for aircraft to dump poop mid-airThe DGCA has now moved a plea seeking review and stay of the December 20, 2016 and the January 10 order of the tribunal claiming that it wa...
- Railways mulls vacuum toilets in trainsRailway Minister Piyush Goyal today conceded that vacuum toilets could be an alternative to bio-toilets, which he said had issues of bad od...
- Impossible to dump human waste mid-air: DGCA tells NGTA bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar asked the DGCA and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to file an affidavi...
- Poop from sky: NGT slams DGCA over non-issuance of circularA vacation bench headed by Justice Dalip Singh asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to immediately comply with the tribun...
- Indians’ lack of toilet hygiene delays long-haul flights, makes airlines bleedIn case of long-haul flights, one would assume that passengers would know how to use a toilet properly. But the reality in India is quite d...
- Airlines to pay fine if their planes empty human waste mid-airThe NGT directed aviation regulator DGCA to issue a circular to all airlines, whose planes are involved, to pay Rs 50,000 as environmental ...
- Railways developes vacuum toilet like in airplanesOn the issue of improving the quality of food and catering, Prabhu said "we are introducing e-catering and when anyone travels, one can now...
- Clogged toilets ground Air India’s Australia-Delhi flightEarlier this year, an AI flight took off for Frankfurt from Delhi. Three hours later, it was back at the IGI Airport as the toilets were cl...
- DGCA directs airlines to spread awareness on Swacch Bharat campaignDGCA has directed Indian carriers to spread awareness on the govt’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan through in-flight announcements and boarding card...
- Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal inspects fitting of bio-toilets on passenger coachesRailway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal today made a surprise visit to the New Delhi Railway station to inspect the fitting of bio-toilets on p...
- Aviation panel notice to Medina airportThe Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has sought a report from Medina airport authorities on Air India’s stowaway case which saw a g...
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