Dry tap forces Malaysia Airlines' London-KL flight to turn back

Dry taps in the lavatories is said to have forced a Malaysia Airlines flight en route to Kuala Lumpur to make an air turn back to London's Heathrow Airport.

According to Flight Alerts, the Malaysia Airlines flight MH1 which departed at 8.36 local time, made a u-turn over Belgium.

The A380 aircraft also had to jettison its fuel in order to reduce landing weight before safely landing at the airport.

#MH1 Malaysia Airlines A380. London Heathrow-Kuala Lumpur is returning back to London after u-turn over Belgium/p>— Flight Alerts (@FlightAlerts777) October 20, 2017

Aircraft is reducing landing weight at 20,000ft near to Southend. https://t.co/TUDsBf21Kw
— Flight Alerts (@FlightAlerts777) October 20, 2017

#MH1 cleared for further descent. Aircraft in the hold to reduce weight on landing. /p>— Flight Alerts (@FlightAlerts777) October 20, 2017

#MH1 has finished fuel jettison and is now on approach back in to London Heathrow /p>— Flight Alerts (@FlightAlerts777) October 20, 2017

#MH1 Safely returned to London Heathrow landing on 27R and vacated the Runway as normal /p>— Flight Alerts (@FlightAlerts777) October 20, 2017

Update. No water in the lavatorys on board the aircraft forced it to return to London https://t.co/TUDsBf21Kw
— Flight Alerts (@FlightAlerts777) October 20, 2017