PASSENGERS were more than a wee bit horrified when a man allegedly urinated into a bag on a plane.

The flight was being operated by EVAS Air Charters for Air Canada Express on April 30 when the incident occured. It was travelling from Deer Lake to Wabush, Canada, a three-hour flight.

Karen Janes, who was flying with her two children, told CBS News that passengers were warned at the airport that there would be no toilet on the plane.

She claims that after approximately 10 minutes on board the plane a man who was seated behind her asked her if there was a lavatory on board, to which she said no.

“So a couple of moments later we started going up in the air and he tapped me on the shoulder and he said, ‘Can you move your son? I need to pee’,” she said.

He proceeded to urinate into a bag, twice, to the shock of onlookers.

“I’m feeling really uncomfortable and disgusted. One for the fact that there’s no bathroom on this plane, and two that this man is urinating behind me with my six-year-old son just ahead of me. The gentleman may very well have had a problem ... so, you know, I don’t blame the gentleman for that.”

However, she is angry at the airline for the lack of a lavatory on the Beechcraft 1900 plane.

“There was no indication when I booked the ticket that there was no bathroom on board.”

Florence White said, a spokesperson for EVAS, said a mechanical issue forced the company to use a substitute plane which had no bathroom.

“We do have a lavatory on the aircraft flying in Labrador,” Ms White said. “However, we also have some aircraft which are reserved for very short routes that do not. On this particular day, due to a mechanical issue with our regular aircraft, we had to substitute an aircraft without a lav.”

Air Canada spokeswoman Isabelle Arthur said it was “very unfortunate experience” and the airline would be contacting Ms Janes.

Not all planes are required to have toilets.