On Friday night, two hours into Flight 194 from Atlanta in the US to Barcelona in Spain – a flight that normally takes eight hours – the pilot requested permission to turn back. The cause was not some technical problem with the Airbus A350, but turned out to be of a medical nature. “There is a health risk. We have a passenger on board with diarrhea all over the plane, so they want us to return to Atlanta,” the pilots said in a taped and circulated conversation with air traffic control.
The flight did not arrive in Barcelona until 5 p.m. the next day, eight hours later than planned. The original departure was already delayed by two hours, even before the incident on board with the sick passenger. The second flight was carried out with the same aircraft as the first, so the aircraft had to be thoroughly cleaned in the meantime. Delta told Insider that the plane in question was indeed due to return to Atlanta for cleaning, but said it was “a medical issue” without further details.
It was the second bad incident with a Delta flight in four days. Last Tuesday, 11 passengers on a flight from Milan to Atlanta were taken to hospital because they were injured after severe turbulence.
2023-09-05 13:15:22
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