When a flight attendant blocked a man from using the lavatory as the aircraft was on final descent, the man responded by dropping his trousers and defecating on the floor of the forward galley. But what he did after was even more bizarre…
Man Defecates On Glalley Floor After Flight Attendant Blocks Him From Using Lavatory
This incident occurred onboard an Air Arabia Morocco flight from Amsterdam (AMS) to Casablanca (CMN) in the Kingdom of Morocco. As the plane neared Casablanca’s Mohammed V International Airport, flight attendants prepared the cabin for landing, which included locking the lavatory doors.
A man appeared in the front galley, wanting to use the lavatory. He was denied. Rather than sit back down and wait 20 minutes for landing, he pulled down his pants, squatted in the lavatory, and defecated on the floor.
I do leave open the fact that there was more than a case of a man simply not being able to hold it. Other reports suggest that once the man defecated on the floor, he began to pick it up and smear it on himself.
That’s often a sign of a mentally compromised state and so it may be that this guy may not have been dealing with a full deck of cards. That does not excuse his conduct or make him a victim, but it also demonstrates it may be more than a callous passenger who could not wait another 20 minutes to go #2…
I don’t write this story to make fun of the man, even if he did have his full faculties. Rather, had I been a flight attendant, I would have simply let the man into the lavatory, even if he remained there for landing.
Perhaps some flight attendants can chime in with what they would do in a similar situation or whether the law absolutely prohibits opening the lavatory door for landing, but humans are going to be human…there will be instances in which someone truly cannot hold it. Isn’t it better for them to go in the lavatory rather than on the galley floor or in their seat?
I understand that there may be liability concerns if a passenger is injured in a lavatory during landing, but I would think an affirmative defense would be that the passenger was advised to sit down and refused…
(image: @AFlyGuyTravels / X // hat tip: The Bulkhead Seat)
That’s what I call a shit show.
Truly, a really crappy situation.
The fecundity of punny comments on this site never ceases to amaze me.
Looks like a clear-cut case of premature evacuation.
Certainly some of the shittiest service ever…
The flight attendants thought he was full of crap. And he proved it …
I have been in a situation where I had to poop a plastic bag. I then wiped and put the toilet paper in the plastic bag. If no plastic bag, then pooping on some newspaper or a magazine might be possible. Pooping on the floor then smearing it is weirð.
Holy cow. Am noticing some of these “travel” blogs picking up more of these disgusting “travel”-related stories. Apparently the more disgusting the more the clicks. Pretty sure you win today’s competition with this “news”. It’s important we know the details of just how depraved our fellow humans can behave. Thanks for doing your part to trashing up the travel blog o’sphere.
@chris … +1 . Surely could have found a more decent story , rather than this repulsive story .
Just today I met a man who is half-Cambodian and half-Vietnamese , who has lived in both countries , and who just returned from family visit to both , and I asked him about Cambodia . He told me the country is extremely poor , everything dictated by the commies , and the expensive Singapore-owned hotels pay extremely low wages to the employees . ( Yet the travel reports about Cambodia , for example , tend to overlook this situation .)
Wow, you really can’t help yourself, can you? You probably didn’t meet anyone, you just need an excuse to say what you want about other countries.
FAs generally don’t bend the rules when it relates to safety, so I doubt many FAs would openly admit that they would have let him use the lav. In hindsight, sure, they should have let him use it given the alternative. But I don’t think any FA could have foresaw what he ended up doing.
“he pulled down his pants, squatted in the lavatory, and defecated on the floor.”
Don’t you mean galley, not lavatory?
Back in the day when the best I could do was an exit row in coach I saw this once on Qantas coming back from Singapore. A merchant seaman returning home to an unhappy situation got trashed and was in a bad state and he locked himself in the rear toilet on a 747. The FA sitting in front of me was very pragmatic about it. She remarked that he’s better off in there keeping his misery to himself than being in the cabin.
Yep. Agreed.
Nothing like dropping trou and cutting some rope.
I was on an LH flight between Fraknkfurt and Ashgabat and a guy was in the toilet 3 or 4 times, clearly an upset stomach, He was still in when we were on final approach, the cabin crew knocked and told him to return to his seat; he cracked the door open and there was a quick conversation and he stayed in as we landed.
Sounds like he was not in a position to return to his seat and a pragmatic solution was found where he accepted responsibility for any mishap.
I was flying from LGA-ORD on AA about a year ago and on short final into O’Hare a guy was up and walking through the aisle. Flight attendants told him to sit down and he yelled “I CAN NOT WAIT.” We landed with him in the lav and he stayed in there until the aircraft was parked at the gate.
Honestly in these situations I think it’s probably better for everyone involved for cabin crew to let someone into the lav, making sure they understand they’re doing so at their own risk.