Passenger's Diarrhea Forces Delta Flight to Turn Back

[FakeNoose]

Daily Beast link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/passengers-diarrhea-forces-delta-flight-to-turn-back

A Delta flight from Atlanta [GA, US] to Barcelona was forced to turn around due to a passenger’s diarrhea, which the pilot considered a “biohazard issue,” according to reports. Around two hours into the transatlantic flight last Friday, Flight 194 was reportedly asked to return to Georgia [US].

“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 reportedly said to air traffic control in a recording shared on Twitter. In a statement to Insider, Delta confirmed the flight had been affected by a “medical issue” which meant that the aircraft needed to return to Atlanta for cleaning.

“Our teams worked as quickly and safely as possible to thoroughly clean the airplane and get our customers to their final destination,” the statement read. “We sincerely apologize to our customers for the delay and inconvenience to their travel plans.”

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Whew! There's one more reason why I'll probably never fly again.

[Earth-shine]

1. passenger who's had diarrhea all the way through the airplane,

What a description! I cannot unsee the image my mind has made based on this description.

[Docreed2003]

2. And this is why Taco Bell in the airport is a bad idea

[BComplex]

22. Hahaha!

[czarjak]

3. Fly The Filthy Skies

[EYESORE 9001]

4. Frankly, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often

Perhaps it’s because I remain hyper vigilant about the issue, I never ignore even the faintest calls of nature. There have been situations which arose so suddenly that disaster was narrowly averted. Of course, this is arguably the most mortifying disaster that anyone could experience, and that possibility drives me to remain vigilant and keep a map of public restrooms in my mind’s eye at all times.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Pepto

I never travel without Pepto tablets. Take a couple before flights.

[EYESORE 9001]

31. Thanks

I’ll give it a try.

[tavernier]

20. I've had stomach issues past few years

and I never eat before flying early flights for this reason. And I don’t make fun of trump’s diapers because I’ve worn some during long trips as a better safe than sorry precaution. Fortunately never needed them.
Poor guy on the plane. Imagine his humiliation.

[Hope22]

27. My friend's 80 y/o mother had Celiac.

They were to fly across the country for her granddaughter’s graduation. I quietly gave her a box of Depends to help her avoid just this problem. I thought I would save my friend from having to have the ‘talk’ with his mom. The day before they flew out she called me and told me I could return the underwear as she WOULD NOT be wearing them! When I told my friend about the conversation he lost his nut with her. I believe his words were, ‘Mom, you will be wearing the protection while we are traveling. I don’t care if you wear them under your pants, over your pants or on your head!’ OMG, why can’t things be simple!🤣😁🤣

[Swede]

62. Immodium does the trick.

It'll plug you right up pretty quickly.

[Wonder Why]

5. Donnie did that to the whole country. We still haven't cleaned it all up.

[lees1975]

16. !

[FakeNoose]

39. You win the internet! Best answer,,,,

[malaise]

6. Now that is a shitty situation

Damn!

[dalton99a]

7. "Ladies and gentlemen: WATCH YOUR STEP

AVOID THE WET SPOTS

OH SHIT

[Blue Owl]

8. Welcome to Trump Airlines!

[progressoid]

9. Here's What Really Happens When You Flush a Toilet

With the press of a handle and a powerful whoosh of water, toilets send waste far away from humans and down into the sewer system. But new research shows—in surprising detail—just how much waste they also spew into the air, potentially spreading contagious diseases in the process.

Scientists have known for decades that, when flushed, toilets expel small particles of water, urine, feces and, at times, dangerous pathogens that are invisible to the naked eye. But researchers haven’t been able to see the airborne particles, nor understand how and where they spread.

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder wondered if they could use lasers to visualize this aerosol plume and measure the trajectory and speed of the toilet-borne particles. They set up green laser beams over a commercial toilet without a lid, positioned two cameras a few feet away, dimmed the lights and flushed. The lasers illuminated the tiny particles ejected by the toilet, allowing the scientists’ eyes and the cameras to clearly see the resulting spray.

... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-what-really-happens-when-you-flush-the-toilet-180981278/

[Bayard]

12. OMG!

I'll have nightmares about that now!

[tavernier]

21. I always close the lid when I flush.

[AntivaxHunters]

10. I feel very bad for the person...

We can joke around & all that but I feel very bad for the person....

A complete loss of any & all dignity in a public space that's tightly enclosed? Imagine the embarrassment & humility that person felt? Stuff like this can easily psychologically scar someone the rest of their life.

As someone who has IBS, I can't even imagine.....
I really feel bad for them.

[Bettie]

19. Even without IBS, it can happen

to anyone.

I feel so bad for them too. I mean, nearly every one of us has had an emergency of that sort at some point in our lives.

Having it happen in a plane would be nightmare. How do you recover from that?

[nuxvomica]

29. Me too. That was my first thought.

It can happen to anyone at any time.

[chowder66]

30. +1

[obnoxiousdrunk]

33. +1. N/T

[StarryNite]

35. I feel so badly for that person too.

[newdayneeded]

47. people are making jokes, but we've all been

there. Driving along, all of a sudden oh crap! Frantically searching for a gas station, or if the Northwoods, a tree to lean against. lol

[GoCubsGo]

59. Same, and when it happens to the rest of us, it doesn't make the news.

No IBS here, but every so often, something I eat doesn't agree with me. Fortunately, I don't go out much, so it hits while I'm at home. At least I can hose my ass off in the shower, and without it affecting anyone else, and the world doesn't have to know about it. It's bad enough when nobody's around to see it. I can't imagine what that poor person is going through.

[dembotoz]

11. once had explosive Diarrhea in a hopital post op with orders not to leave the bed

without a nurse.....

the nurse was a bit late...i literally shit the room....It took a housekeeping staff of 3 a rather long time to get the room back to normal.

It would be a great bit for a poorly written B movie......

[Bayard]

13. I was once in an emergency room cubicle,

With my ex, who had been hit by a car while out running. We were waiting for the doc to come in. Paramedics brought in a woman to the cubicle next to us, and you could smell them coming a mile away. When they had gone to pick her up, she was such a mess that they just rolled her up in her bedsheets and loaded her. All of the ER personnel were gagging, and we weren't doing much better with just a curtain between us. When the doc went in there, it sounded like she threw up. Poor patient apologizing the whole time.

[Iggo]

24. I had amoebic dysentery back when I was 16 or 17.

Similar ER experience…lol.

I remember I was out of school for a week, because that’s the week that Roots aired for the first time.

We all blamed paraquat, which was a thing back then, but I honestly don’t know how I came down with it.

[róisín_dubh]

40. Oh I caught giardia in Mexico

I felt like I had a hot poker jammed into my intestines. I barely, barely made it home before I was so violently ill for months.
I now have IBS.

[Arthur_Frain]

14. LOL "flight strip"

Thanks for the laugh, I worked air traffic for 25 years, and that’s not what we called a flight strip.

[phylny]

15. It's also possible that the person was undergoing chemotherapy

of some sort, which makes their feces toxic to be around or touch.

[MuseRider]

18. New York to Moscow

The entire way someone in the rows in front of us had the worst gas anyone on the plane could imagine, I know this because those of us who had a spray deodorant in our carry on used it to be able to breathe. Still no one would fess up, understandably so. The entire flight. It was a trip with a grade school group and if that was not bad enough there were the comments and silly jokes from the kids. I would not have admitted to it either. Arriving in the scary space of the Moscow airport was a relief. THE WHOLE FLIGHT. I applaud the pilot who turned it around although diarrhea would have been much worse I think.

** it was a grade school group going to sing as a trade back and thank you for the Treasures of the Czars that had been here for so long so we were not scared really but that area you go into when you got off the plane was out of a scary book. We all still chuckle about that flight, it was that bad.

[JI7]

23. They probably have some medical condition

[Sneederbunk]

25. Not to mention the flatulence in row 27.

[PCIntern]

28. When I was in high school

there was a maintenance man, a young guy, who used to use the bathroom in the gym every morning. No big deal, but one time I walked into the foyer and there was this unbelievable horrifying, vile, permeating smell which was nothing like I had ever encountered. This was a gym, not exactly a closet-sized room. As I walked toward my gym locker it got worse and I saw the guy on the toilet - no stalls in those days - and he said to me, "Sorry for that." How bad was it? They had to cancel wrestling practice that afternoon because the wrestling room had almost no ventilation and the stench was beyond belief and unbearable.

Years later, I was told that if you have certain kinds of ailments which cause blood to be excreted in great amounts, you can get that kind of odor. To this day, I cannot ever forget that experience...obviously.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

36. "certain kinds of ailments

which cause blood to be excreted in great amounts, you can get that kind of odor."

Or nature, once a month, for about 35 years.

[PCIntern]

37. Not from your rectum.

[Wingus Dingus]

41. GI-bleed poo is one of the most distinctively foul smells.

[Joinfortmill]

46. OMG

[Elessar Zappa]

32. I've had an emergency on the plane

but luckily I made it to the bathroom. I can’t imagine this person’s embarrassment.

[MOMFUDSKI]

34. That is your

classic “shit happens”

[Torchlight]

38. Glad he didn't purchase any Nvidia stock

The hipster eyebrows would raise even further.

[ecstatic]

42. was the person not wearing underwear?

How did it drip all the way down the plane aisle? Holy crap.

[Kaleva]

45. I've had it so bad

that I had to wash down the whole toilet, the side wall and floor . Plus it was in my shirt, pants and socks.

I don't get to use the master bathroom as the wife has decreed I use the laundry room bathroom which is next to our bedroom.

She has issues about me shitting all over the toilet, floor and walls.

[PCIntern]

49. You deserve a rec for that description.

[Kaleva]

50. I bookmarked this thread to preserve my very first rec!

[Buns_of_Fire]

56. Picky, picky, picky. nt

[Kaleva]

60. My wife sets almost impossible to meet high standards

[Kaleva]

43. Shit happens

[Joinfortmill]

44. Well that's a new one.

[newdayneeded]

48. A little remedy for an emergency like

this in a vehicle. At least for a guy! Put a cold soda or water bottle against your balls, for some reason it takes away the diarrhea pains (urges) for several minutes. maybe enough time to make a gas station. Not sure if it would have the same affect for lady parts, but maybe.

[Kaleva]

51. Would an open cold beer work?

I could see Peter Griffin doing that.

[newdayneeded]

53. Yes, be absolutely sure not to

spill a drop. lol

[Takket]

52. feel sorry for the person with the "medical issue"

they must be completely humiliated.

I've had panic attacks about air travel because I'm absolutely terrified at the prospect of not being able to get up and use the bathroom if I need to. I always make sure "go" before I board, but I still start to panic, and then once you start panicking you panic about panicking and it just becomes a feedback loop. I terrified my poor wife........

So reading something like this I feel sympathy for the person.......

[Kaleva]

54. Fellow passengers are now members of an elite group

Transatlantic travelers whose flight had to return because someone shit all over the plane creating a biohazard.

[Emile]

55. I feel sorry for the people who had to clean it up.

[Buns_of_Fire]

57. I should really have cofefe before I read the headings.

I somehow read it as "Diarrhea Force Delta" and wondered if they were affiliated with the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers on J6.

[dalton99a]

61. +1