easyJet cancelled a flight last weekend after someone was discovered to have “defecated on the toilet floor” of the plane.
Passengers preparing to travel from Tenerife to London on Sunday, October 15, were dismayed to hear from their pilot that they would be spending the night stranded on the Spanish island.
Some voiced their frustrations online after they discovered the reason behind the postponement.
Footage shared online shows the aircraft corridor dotted with pieces of tissue while confused passengers watch on.
And it shares a brief speech from a pilot on flight EZY8054 who dubbed the situation “rather entertaining”, as he informed people what would happen next.
The plane, which easyJet has identified as flight EZY8054, was due to depart on October 15 at 8.05pm and arrive in London by 12.20am.
The flight had already been delayed for several hours when it was cancelled that evening, with the news announced by one of the plane’s pilots over the speaker system.
A video shared to social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, captured the pilot as he began his speech.
He was heard saying it was “rather entertaining to defecate the front toilet”, and told passengers they were “staying the night” in Tenerife.
He added: “We’re now going to get everyone off… and organise hotels then we’ll fly back tomorrow morning.”
Frustrated passengers quickly took to social media to voice their fury, with one user stating the reasoning for their cancelling was “unacceptable”.
Another astounded user said: “My easy jet flight has just been f***ing cancelled because somebody s*** on the f***ing floor…”
And one said: “Real good of @easyjet to delay the flight 3.5 house with 0 communication then decide to cancel it altogether because someone took a s*** on the toilet floor. Quite literally couldn’t make this s*** up.”
Passengers were eventually able to fly to London via flight 9954, which was scheduled to leave at 3pm today, with a spokesman for easyJet confirming the original flight was “delayed overnight” because the aircraft required “additional cleaning”.
They said: “We did all possible to minimise the impact of the disruption for our customers, providing hotel accommodation and meals and the flight is due to depart this afternoon.
“The safety and wellbeing of our customers and crew is easyJet’s highest priority and while this was outside of our control, we would like to apologise to customers for the inconvenience caused.”
