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Delta flight forced into emergency landing by passenger’s diarrhea: ‘This is a biohazard’
By Marjorie Hernandez
Published Sep. 4, 2023
Updated Sep. 5, 2023, 8:58 a.m. ET
A Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after a passenger “had diarrhea all the way through the plane.”
The Airbus A350 aircraft was two hours into a trans-Atlantic flight from Georgia to Spain on Friday when the pilot asked to come back because of the fecal fiasco.
“This is a biohazard issue,” the pilot said to air traffic control, recorded from LiveATC.com and shared on X.
“We’ve had a passenger who’s had diarrhea all the way through the airplane, so they want us to come back to Atlanta.”
The identity of the passenger remains a mystery, but the passengers and crew were transferred and Flight DL194 finally made it to Barcelona at 5:10 p.m. the next day — eight hours later than scheduled, according to Flightradar24.
It is not known if the passenger who had the digestive problem was aboard the plane when it touched down in Spain.
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https://nypost.com/2023/09/04/delta-flight-forced-into-emergency-landing-by-passengers-diarrhea/
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Translation Google
Some diarrhea becomes a "biological risk" and an Airbus bound for Barcelona has to turn around
GUILLEM RS
Barcelona
09/04/2023 11:47
2 minutes
Delta
This Friday a Delta Airlines Aribus A350 arrived very late at Barcelona's El Prat airport after covering the route between Atlanta and Catalonia. The explanations given by the company , and confirmed by some aviation experts, are related to a " biohazard" that was detected inside the aircraft. But the story is more prosaic. No chemical leaks and no threat from Bacillus anthracis , the famous anthrax. One of the passengers had diarrhea and spread, for reasons that have not yet been confirmed, throughout the plane.
diarrhea everywhere
To avoid a trip that could last hours with the bad smell caused by this human flight, and to be able to clean it up correctly, the crew and the pilot declared the biohazard on board and requested permission to turn around and land again in Atlanta. , in the United States, where the plane was cleaned. The operation lengthened the wait for passengers for a long time, although they appreciated it.
Delta Plane
Image of an airplane lavatory; where|where surely the passenger of the 'biohazard' did not arrive / Ceded
Inside, the bad smell caused by the passenger's diarrhea was unbearable and, even as the captain in the control tower assured on the radio, they had become a biological risk for the rest of the passengers. Although with this delay, the plane was able to reach Barcelona without further problems.
A danger to passengers
As the person in charge of Trànsit Aeri de Catalunya has explained to ElCaso.com , this type of alert is not common, and even less that they make a plane turn around with this type of route, although it is also true that making a long trip A trip with a bad smell can be an ordeal and even a danger for the passengers.
Trànsit Aeri de Catalunya, a reference Twitter account on aviation in Catalonia, also explains that it is more common for some planes to have to return or stop their journey due to a bad smell in the toilet, but not in cases like this Aribus A350 from Delta Airlines that covered the route between Atlanta and Barcelona , this past Friday.
https://elcaso.elnacional.cat/es/no...gico-airbus-barcelona-atlanta_1087317102.html
By Marjorie Hernandez
Published Sep. 4, 2023
Updated Sep. 5, 2023, 8:58 a.m. ET
A Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after a passenger “had diarrhea all the way through the plane.”
The Airbus A350 aircraft was two hours into a trans-Atlantic flight from Georgia to Spain on Friday when the pilot asked to come back because of the fecal fiasco.
“This is a biohazard issue,” the pilot said to air traffic control, recorded from LiveATC.com and shared on X.
“We’ve had a passenger who’s had diarrhea all the way through the airplane, so they want us to come back to Atlanta.”
The identity of the passenger remains a mystery, but the passengers and crew were transferred and Flight DL194 finally made it to Barcelona at 5:10 p.m. the next day — eight hours later than scheduled, according to Flightradar24.
It is not known if the passenger who had the digestive problem was aboard the plane when it touched down in Spain.
...
https://nypost.com/2023/09/04/delta-flight-forced-into-emergency-landing-by-passengers-diarrhea/
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Translation Google
Some diarrhea becomes a "biological risk" and an Airbus bound for Barcelona has to turn around
GUILLEM RS
Barcelona
09/04/2023 11:47
2 minutes
Delta
This Friday a Delta Airlines Aribus A350 arrived very late at Barcelona's El Prat airport after covering the route between Atlanta and Catalonia. The explanations given by the company , and confirmed by some aviation experts, are related to a " biohazard" that was detected inside the aircraft. But the story is more prosaic. No chemical leaks and no threat from Bacillus anthracis , the famous anthrax. One of the passengers had diarrhea and spread, for reasons that have not yet been confirmed, throughout the plane.
diarrhea everywhere
To avoid a trip that could last hours with the bad smell caused by this human flight, and to be able to clean it up correctly, the crew and the pilot declared the biohazard on board and requested permission to turn around and land again in Atlanta. , in the United States, where the plane was cleaned. The operation lengthened the wait for passengers for a long time, although they appreciated it.
Delta Plane
Image of an airplane lavatory; where|where surely the passenger of the 'biohazard' did not arrive / Ceded
Inside, the bad smell caused by the passenger's diarrhea was unbearable and, even as the captain in the control tower assured on the radio, they had become a biological risk for the rest of the passengers. Although with this delay, the plane was able to reach Barcelona without further problems.
A danger to passengers
As the person in charge of Trànsit Aeri de Catalunya has explained to ElCaso.com , this type of alert is not common, and even less that they make a plane turn around with this type of route, although it is also true that making a long trip A trip with a bad smell can be an ordeal and even a danger for the passengers.
Trànsit Aeri de Catalunya, a reference Twitter account on aviation in Catalonia, also explains that it is more common for some planes to have to return or stop their journey due to a bad smell in the toilet, but not in cases like this Aribus A350 from Delta Airlines that covered the route between Atlanta and Barcelona , this past Friday.
https://elcaso.elnacional.cat/es/no...gico-airbus-barcelona-atlanta_1087317102.html