Extreme body odour causes emergency landing of passenger plane
Dutch low-cost airline Transavia had to ground one of its passenger flights after the terrible stench of one man caused people on-board to vomit and faint.
There is a long list of potential inconveniences that you can experience when you take a long-haul flight. Among lost luggage, limited food choices, and noisy seatmates, it is not common to count "excessive body odour" as a disadvantage of flying.
But for the passengers on a Transavia flight from the Netherlands to the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, it was indeed the bad smell of one man that caused chaos.
Reports from Metro and The Sun describe passengers who became so distressed by the man's body odour that they fainted and vomited.
The flight had to be diverted and the plane made an emergency landing in Faro, southern Portugal. The man was removed from the plane.
Since the news was released, people have tweeted lightheartedly about the bizarre incident.
Never heard the likes. Must have been serious 😂
— Aviation Spotting (@spotting_plane) May 31, 2018
He needs some Aroma Therapy.
— Rory Cowan (@1rorycowan) May 31, 2018
He needs a parachute
— Tom McA (@Tom_oes) May 31, 2018
Surprisingly, this is not the first time that Transavia has had to divert a plane due to a passenger's bad hygiene. In February, a flight had to make an emergency landing in Vienna after a man's incessant farting caused a fight to break out between passengers.
Is Transavia, which is a low-cost airline, destined to carry strange passengers forever?