New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- A JetBlue flight from Philadelphia to Boston was grounded for hours Saturday after staff refused to remove the poop clogging a busted toilet, leading to its cancellation.

The JetBlue Flight 260 was scheduled to depart Philadelphia International Airport at 8:40 AM for Boston. However, according to an eyewitness, speaking to The New York Post, the passengers were made to wait for nearly an hour inside the plane before the staff offered an explanation.

The staff announced that the aircraft could not take off, citing faeces lodged in a malfunctioning bathroom as the cause of the delay, the eyewitness said.

"We boarded as normal . and then they told us there was a mechanical issue with the bathrooms," Hilary Coulter, a ...