The end of these summer holidays has been marked by a notorious incident that affected a flight from Atlanta to Barcelona. The plane that covered this route for Delta airlines on Friday, September 1, was forced to return after a two-hour flight due to diarrhea suffered by one of its passengers.
The traveler’s illness would not have been relevant if it had not been for the fact that what happened had consequences for the rest of the passengers, and that the diarrhea had spread throughout a good part of the plane. For this reason, the flight crew decided to return to Atlanta and, after an arduous cleaning of the cabin, resume the trip again to Barcelona.
The aircraft arrived at its destination eight hours later than originally planned, so the incident caused a great impact on the passengers. One of them, named Carles, has recounted what he experienced on the radio program Versió RAC1. “I’m fine, we didn’t find out too much about the issue,” he said, assuring that it was the pilot who warned of what was happening through the public address system. “He had realized that there was a person who was stretched out and sick and that for a biological reason we were returning to the Atlanta airport,” he said.
“Everyone was very calm; when they told us we were already turning around, so there was no shouting or anything strange,” confirms the traveler. In addition, he says that the affected passenger did not require “medical assistance on board because I and my partner are doctors and no one requested the presence of a doctor,” according to his account.
Carles assures that from their position they did not notice the incident until they were forced to leave the plane, back in Atlanta. “That was a festival; they had covered it up but there was from half a plane until you came out full of diarrhea,” he told Versió RAC1. However, he insists that “there was no smell on the plane” and that it could have “stained 15 or 20 rows”.
Of course, the airline has given 200 dollars to each affected traveler in exchange, that is, about 190 euros, “for the disorders caused.” This discount can be used for a year on company flights as a form of compensation for this notorious incident.
