Re-booting a loo

A little quiz for you: picture yourself as pilot-in-command of an Airbus A340, sitting at the gate at the airport. One of your cabin personnel comes to you to report that the loos are not flushing. What do you do?

The answer: You "re-boot" the entire aircraft! This is exactly what happened to us today on a flight from Munich to Johannesburg. The captain came on the P/A to announce that he had to shut down and restart the entire aircraft for just that reason! Sure enough, the lights went dark (except the emergency lighting). Only that the toilets still wouldn't flush (to be precise, they just didn't "rinse", but the part that...uhm...takes care of getting out the load did actually work; so for the remainder of the flight, everyone was asked to add some water by using a cup...).

Now you know ;-)