Chemical alert aboard a Delta A350: "Control tower there's diarrhea all over the plane, let's go back"
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We read about landings of emergency caused by bird strike, planes damaged by hailstorms o problems caused by impetuous passengers on board, we also told about passengers who have released their stimuli in the cabin, but I had never before read the news of a plane declaring an emergency on board and asking to return to the same airport from which it had taken off.
Pilot calls tower and declares "biohazard on board"
The incident occurred on Friday, September 1. Flight DL194 took off from Atlanta and headed to Barcelona over 2 hours late, but about 60 minutes after takeoff it reversed course and landed at the same airport from which it had taken off a few minutes before 11 p.m.
A Delta Airlines Airbus A350 turned around back to Atlanta Friday night because of diarrhea throughout the airplane from a passenger and it's a biohazard. ??
The FAA flight strip for DL194 was posted to Reddit (?xStang05x) Also a passenger posted here asking why her son's... pic.twitter.com/VWbkB47wF1
- Thenewarea51 (@thenewarea51) September 3, 2023
What happened is summarized perfectly in the recordings between the cabin and the control tower.
"Back to ATL - Passenger diarrhea on entire plane - biohazard" the pilot as per procedure declared the biohazard on board, and the reason is that a passenger allegedly defecated on board. Probably in an attempt to reach a vacant lavatory.
"It's just a biohazard issue, we had one passenger who had diarrhea during the flight."
What happened next
Obviously it was necessary to sanitize the entire plane, activate all on-call personnel since those on board would not be able to resume the flight due to reaching time limits, and repeat boarding procedures. In short, the flight departed and arrived at its destination about 8 hours late, but smelling and clean as per the textbook. This news story rightfully enters In the most absurd 2023.
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