Latest Boeing flightmare as Alaska Airlines plane from Hawaii to Alaska is forced to turn around due to the cabin FLOODING – as flight attendants use paper towels to desperately mop it up

An Alaska Airlines plane flying from Hawaii to Alaska was forced to turn around after a bathroom flooded and filled the aisles of the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane with water.

The flight from Honolulu to Anchorage had left the island just after 10pm on Friday evening and was 90 minutes into the flight when the plane’s forward bathroom suddenly began to malfunction and leak water everywhere.

Rather than continue the six-hour journey to Alaska, the captain of Alaska Airlines Flight 828 decided to return to Hawaii to resolve the problem.

Video footage from one of the passengers on board shows flight attendants rushing to clean up the deluge, throwing as many blankets and paper towels on the floor as they can find.

“There was probably two to three inches of standing water that flowed out as soon as you opened the front restroom door,” Parker told Alaska’s news source.

Passengers witnessed flight attendants hurriedly clearing up the water with paper towels as water continued to flow from a faulty sink

The incident occurred 90 minutes into the flight, prompting the captain’s decision to turn back

Flight attendants used whatever paper towels they could find to clean up the mess

Piles of paper towels were used to stop the flow of water from the bathroom

“I would say an hour and a half into the flight we noticed the water and it was significant. The entire floorboards of that plane were completely wet.”

It is believed the problem was related to a bathroom sink rather than a toilet, meaning the water flowing through the plane was clean rather than sewage.

A FlightAware map showed the plane was in the air for a total of 2 hours and 18 minutes before landing safely in Hawaii at 12:30 p.m.

Passengers were eventually rebooked on other flights because there was no other backup aircraft to take them to their destinations.

The aisles of the plane remained soaked as water poured down throughout the plane

Paper towels could be seen strewn all over the floor as flight attendants did their best to mop up

The flight was 90 minutes into Alaska when the captain decided to turn back

The incident took place on board an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9

In January, an Alaska Airlines flight suffered a near-catastrophe when an airplane door blew out at 16,000 feet above Portland

Passengers aboard the doomed Alaska Airlines flight were notified last month that they may be considered the ‘possible victim of a crime’ after the mid-air incident in January

“We apologize to our guests for any inconvenience this has 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 headlines early this year after one of its Boeing Max jets blew off a door plug mid-flight at 16,000 feet with 171 passengers and crew on board on January 5, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon.

Last month, Justice Department investigators contacted some passengers to inform them that they may be victims of a crime. It also led to the departure of company CEO Dave Calhoun.

A United Airlines Boeing 777-300ER was forced to return to Frankfurt after a broken toilet caused feces to flow into the cabin, releasing a foul odor

The flight was an hour into the flight, but technicians could not solve the problem, so the Boeing 777-300ER returned to Frankfurt, Germany

Friday night’s toilet incident is similar to that of passengers aboard a United Airlines flight traveling from Frankfurt, Germany to San Francisco, where the Boeing 777-300ER’s toilet overflowed and filled the cabin with a fetid odor.

United Airlines Flight 59 was an hour into its 11-hour, 30-minute journey to California when the captain of the Boeing 777-300ER decided it was best to return to Germany rather than continue flying over the Atlantic Ocean.

FlightAware shows the plane briefly circled over the North Sea, east of England, as the crew weighed their options. Technicians could not immediately find a solution to the problem.

The smell permeated the entire plane shortly after takeoff.

Passengers reported that the contents of the waste tank overflowed and spilled into the cabin, which only worsened the situation.

The plane, which is only seven years old, was back on the ground in Germany just two hours after takeoff.

“On Friday, March 29, United Flight 59 returned to Frankfurt following a maintenance issue with one of the aircraft’s lavatories,” a United statement said.

“The passengers were given a hotel stay in Frankfurt – and were rebooked on another flight to San Francisco the next day,” the statement said.