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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.
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The aisles of the plane were left soaked as the water ran down through the entirety of the plane
