Texas Flight Goes Nowhere After Flying For Nine Hours

I am admittedly not the best flier. If the turbulence gets a bit too rough, I'll clutch the arms of my seat. However, nothing would've prepared me for what happened on a flight originating in Dallas, TX.

The flight in question was going to be an overseas flight headed to Seoul, South Korea. This flight is roughly a 15-hour journey that takes you across the Pacific Ocean, so you're pretty much killing an entire day headed there.

At least when you get there, you can start to settle in and either enjoy your vacation or get back to your normal daily life. What happened to these passengers on an American Airlines flight leaving Dallas for Seoul though was not what they had in mind.

NINE HOURS AND NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT

As we mentioned previously, the flight takes nearly 15 hours to complete its journey, yet these passengers were only on the plane for nine hours. Now, it seems like that would be getting somewhere in record time, but it might be the longest flight ever to go absolutely nowhere.

When I say it went nowhere, it's not that it didn't get in the air and fly. It did. In fact, it even started to work its way across the water. That's when messages started coming across the intercom of the airplane.

WHAT WERE THE MESSAGES

There was apparently a toilet issue on the plane, and it was something that the pilots felt they needed to turn back for. Now, you'd think it's just a toilet issue, how bad could it be? Well here's the thing, it was a flight headed over water. Pilots don't take any chances when there is literally nowhere to make an emergency landing if needed.

Through the intercom, they started to ask if anybody happened to have a screwdriver on them to help fix the toilet. I'm pretty sure TSA considers a screwdriver a weapon when it comes to being on a plane. Furthermore, who just happens to be carrying around a screwdriver? Someone on the flight was flabbergasted at the beginning of the intercom messages and started recording everything.

END RESULT

Thanks to the toilet issue, they turned back shortly after crossing over the water and decided to head back to Dallas. A lot of questions were being asked, such as why they wouldn't just land somewhere closer to where they were.

Instead, they traveled all the way back to their origination point. Some people said it's probably because the airline didn't want to have to pay for hotels, but ultimately there were plenty of Seoul residents on that plane, so it's hard to say if that would be the reason.

The whole thing is interesting to watch from this persons perspective. Check out the video she pieced together from it below.

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