Water leak forces Qantas flight to return to LAX

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Qantas Airlines flight that departed from Los Angeles was forced to turn around because of a water leak on board.

The flight took off for Melbourne at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, and the leak sprung about an hour later.

Video taken by a passenger shows water coming down from the ceiling and streaming through the cabin. The crew moved passengers to dry areas of the plane and gave them blankets.

The airline stressed that there was no safety concern with the leak, but about 45 minutes after the pipe broke, the captain returned to LAX for the sake of passenger comfort.

"All of a sudden, people started jumping up and yelling because all this water was coming basically in the middle of the aircraft," said passenger Ken Cross. "They couldn't feed us. There was no entertainment, so you couldn't keep going for 15 hours like that.

Actress Yvette Nicole Brown was also aboard the plane. She tweeted, "Pipe burst on my Qantas flight over the Pacific. We were diverted back to LA. River running thru the aisles #ScaryTimes #WillKeepYouPosted."

While it was an unexpected inconvenience for passengers, no one was injured in the incident.

Passengers have been put up in hotels while engineers fix the problem and look into what caused the water pipe to burst.