ATLANTA – A Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta to Barcelona, Spain, had to turn back last week after a passenger had a medical issue that required the plane to be thoroughly cleaned.
According to reporting by multiple media outlets, including Business Insider, Delta confirmed a medical issue happened on flight DL194, and that crews worked to thoroughly clean the plane before allowing passengers to travel again.
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The medical issue?
According to Business Insider, audio recorded from LiveATC.com between the plane’s pilots and air traffic control shows a passenger had “diarrhea all the way through the airplane.”
“This is a biohazard issue,” a pilot can be heard saying.
Data from flightaware.com shows the plane was about two hours into its flight from Georgia to Barcelona when it returned to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Passengers then had to wait while crews thoroughly cleaned the plane, which finally took off just before 3 a.m. and arrived in Barcelona eight hours later.
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