Incident: KLM MD11 near Shetland Islands on Oct 28th 2009
A KLM McDonnell Douglas MD-11, registration PH-KCD performing flight KL-605 from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to San Francisco,CA (USA), was enroute just south of the main Shetland Island,SC (UK) about one hour into the flight, when the crew descended the aeroplane, entered a holding for about 50 minutes and subsequently decided to return to Amsterdam, where the aircraft landed safely 3 hours after departure.
A replacement MD-11 registration PH-KCA reached San Francisco with a delay of 6 hours.
A source within KLM told The Aviation Herald, that the airplane had run out of water causing lavatories to fail.
