Delta flight diverted after passenger reportedly has 'diarrhea all the way through the airplane'

Yahoo Finance ^ | September 5, 2023 | Greg Wehner

[lasereye]

A Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta, Georgia to Barcelona, Spain was diverted back to its original airport after a passenger experienced an "onboard medical issue," which was reportedly a case of "diarrhea all the way through the plane."

The website FlightRadar24.com shows Delta Flight DL194 was about two hours into its eight-hour flight when it turned around over Virginia and headed back to Atlanta.

A user on X, formerly known as Twitter, who appears to devote his page to flight material shared audio recorded from the Airbus A350 that was broadcast on LiveATC.com.

On the recording, a pilot tells air traffic control, "This is a biohazard issue."

"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 pilot added.

A Delta spokesperson confirmed with Fox News Digital there was no emergency landing because of the biohazard situation, but the flight did return to its original airport.

"Delta flight 194 from Atlanta to Barcelona returned to Atlanta following an onboard medical issue," the spokesperson said. "Our teams worked as quickly and safely as possible to thoroughly clean the airplane and get our customers to their final destination. We sincerely apologize to our customers for the delay and inconvenience to their travel plans."

[stylecouncilor]

How terrible for that person. I would die of embarrassment!

[USS Alaska]

Never eat Delta Chalupa.

The week is early, but so far, you win post of the week, by a landslide???

[Manic_Episode]

Not my story, just passed it on.

https://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-most-embarrassing-plane-pooping-story-ever-1456846301

[pax_et_bonum]

However the pax got off the plane, I suspect that stepping carefully was involved.

[maddog55]

Exactly.. I quit a several years ago. The people flying nowadays is on the same level as the Greyhound bus crowd.

I’d walk anywhere before I’d fly.

[dfwgator]

I flew Spirit Airlines once......Once!

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Are we sure that this wasn’t actually an incident on Air Force One?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Hard to believe that episode aired way back in 2006. It definitely repeated during this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiMoQS8_q0w

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Totally understand! I had a similar incident as you did. Being the super genius that I am, I decided to finally try a bunch of White Castle burgers for the very first time - and before taking a flight from St Louis back to Denver. By the time I got to the gate area, I was doubled over in pain. An officer with a bomb sniffing dog came by and the dog wouldn’t take his eyes off me. Had he triggered an inspection, it would have been all over. I was chanting to myself “Please don’t come over please don’t come over please don’t come over...”
Thank gawd he didn’t and I powered through.

[dforest]

Happy Trails to ya all. I remember when a trip on the airplane used to be a big excitement.

Trapped in a tube 50,000 feet above ground with nutcases and sick people is nothing I could want to do anymore.

[xp38]

Perhaps to quote Michael Palin in the cheese shop skit it was uh very runny and combine that with uh unusual turbulence...well

[OSHA]

I’ve often questioned the wisdom of having sushi bars in the international terminal.

[Georgia Girl 2]

😮

[Albion Wilde]

Have the stewardess clean it up. Or Volunteers. 2 hours into a flight and you turn around?! 4 hours on a plane is an eternity as it is. This makes no sense to me.

Glad you are not an air traffic controller.

[gitmo]

Darn. They deleted it. I was wanting to read that to my wife.

[Manic_Episode]

This Is The Most Embarrassing Plane-Pooping Story Ever

This is the same excerpt I used but the site has a link to the longer version. I just put up the good part.

[gitmo]

Thanks. I’ve bookmarked it.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Thank you. I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip your waitress. :-D