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Uncontrolled bowel movement forces flight turnaround?
https://www.unilad.com/news/travel/delta-flight-at...
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There's been a few stories like that. It's a biohazard and due to the way the air is recirculated, the smell won't clear until you open the doors.
This story comes up as a wtf fairly regularly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-31908620
This story comes up as a wtf fairly regularly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-31908620
ZedLeg said:
There's been a few stories like that. It's a biohazard and due to the way the air is recirculated, the smell won't clear until you open the doors.
This story comes up as a wtf fairly regularly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-31908620
Ew, thanks. Luckily I've escaped that wonderful experienceThis story comes up as a wtf fairly regularly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-31908620
We were on a KLM flight recently from Amsterdam back to Aberdeen and as we took our seats in the very back row, quickly become aware of someone sounding pretty ill in the toilet immediately behind us. It was obviously coming out of both ends pretty violently and you could hear everything.
The cabin crew, whilst initiallly sympathetic quite quickly took quite a stern approach - warning the passenger that they had to either go to their seat for take off or get off the plane. The ill passenger, an Indian lady, somehow managed to go back to her seat but continued violently throwing up. This time in a series of sick bags much to the discomfort of those around her.
From overheard conversations between the crew she had clearly been attempting to stand on the toilet and had left it in such a state that it had remained cordoned off for the rest of the flight. Not the most enjoyable flight but we landed on time!
The cabin crew, whilst initiallly sympathetic quite quickly took quite a stern approach - warning the passenger that they had to either go to their seat for take off or get off the plane. The ill passenger, an Indian lady, somehow managed to go back to her seat but continued violently throwing up. This time in a series of sick bags much to the discomfort of those around her.
From overheard conversations between the crew she had clearly been attempting to stand on the toilet and had left it in such a state that it had remained cordoned off for the rest of the flight. Not the most enjoyable flight but we landed on time!
ZedLeg said:
There's been a few stories like that. It's a biohazard and due to the way the air is recirculated, the smell won't clear until you open the doors.
This story comes up as a wtf fairly regularly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-31908620
There’s always a wry smile as you tuck the newspaper under you arm and proudly state “I’d give it ten minutes if I were you”This story comes up as a wtf fairly regularly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-31908620
Just imagine the joy/smugness/horror felt by taking a s
t large enough to cause an airliner to divert.Sounds more like it happened trying to get to the loo......so one of those occasions where a window seat might be marginally better than aisle.
Re change of air.
The cabin is not an airtight sealed tube bleed air from the engine compressor stages is fed into the cabin constantly which provides both heating and air exchange the pressurisation controller will allow air overboard by the outflow valve.
Re change of air.
The cabin is not an airtight sealed tube bleed air from the engine compressor stages is fed into the cabin constantly which provides both heating and air exchange the pressurisation controller will allow air overboard by the outflow valve.
Mr Whippy said:
It’s interesting that they can’t just take on new fresh air and ‘dump’ old air…
So adding vanilla scent just makes it smell of vanilla and poo…
The cost of adding such systems is clearly in excess of the money lost by doing occasional turn-arounds/diverts etc.
The recirc fans can just be switched off at the cost of higher fuel consumption. Apparently this doesn’t do much to improve air quality though. So adding vanilla scent just makes it smell of vanilla and poo…
The cost of adding such systems is clearly in excess of the money lost by doing occasional turn-arounds/diverts etc.
I remember flying in an AA 767 from Chicago to Birmingham in the mid 1990s. I was on an aisle seat at the very back, next to a woman sat by the window. It was the usual overnight flight and this lady just kept getting up and down and heading to the toilet. Eventually we agreed to swap seats to make life easier. Anyway on final approach to BHX, the wheels came down and lo-and-behold off she goes again for one last comfort break. She just got back to her seat a second before touchdown.
My wife had a similar problem last year in a TUI 787 on a flight back from Cape Verde. She must have spent nearly 25% of that flight in the toilet (both ends…). There’s no worse place to be when you’re ill than 40,000ft up and knowing that you’re stuck there for 5 or 6 hours.
My wife had a similar problem last year in a TUI 787 on a flight back from Cape Verde. She must have spent nearly 25% of that flight in the toilet (both ends…). There’s no worse place to be when you’re ill than 40,000ft up and knowing that you’re stuck there for 5 or 6 hours.
LotusOmega375D said:
There’s no worse place to be when you’re ill than 40,000ft up and knowing that you’re stuck there for 5 or 6 hours.
I can attest to this.I thought it was a little hot in the queue for check-in at Schipol and I was cursing their a/c designers.
Memories of meeting my sister for dinner the night before in Amsterdam and having the steak with bacon & chicken livers were still very fresh in my mind.
FF to mid Atlantic and I was a sweating, shivering, teeth chattering mess.
The poor girl stuck next to me was trying her best to shrink into the bulkhead and probably wondering if all dream holidays started like this.
Eventually on one of my many visits to the loo I ‘evacuated via the front and rear exits’, and started to feel a little better, but since then I’ve never chosen to sit next to the loos on a long haul flight, and although it stank like the 7th level of Hades I left the crapper as I found it, which is more than a lot of travellers do.
magpie215 said:
Sounds more like it happened trying to get to the loo......so one of those occasions where a window seat might be marginally better than aisle.
Re change of air.
The cabin is not an airtight sealed tube bleed air from the engine compressor stages is fed into the cabin constantly which provides both heating and air exchange the pressurisation controller will allow air overboard by the outflow valve.
Ah fair enough.Re change of air.
The cabin is not an airtight sealed tube bleed air from the engine compressor stages is fed into the cabin constantly which provides both heating and air exchange the pressurisation controller will allow air overboard by the outflow valve.
You’d have thought the smell would be more manageable than it’s suggested.
My cat does some real stinkers in a bit of a dead-end room where the litter tray is, no window either, but once it’s sealed away in a bag it’s tolerable again fairly soon.
Maybe they need moppable aisles?
Could be worse:
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/overwe...
we regularly fly EVA as well.
Back in the 90's I was seated on an flight when the guy next to me tried to stifle a fart, couldn't and then followed through with a very wet sound. It was an interesting flight, and oddly, we're actually still mates to this day.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/overwe...
we regularly fly EVA as well.
Back in the 90's I was seated on an flight when the guy next to me tried to stifle a fart, couldn't and then followed through with a very wet sound. It was an interesting flight, and oddly, we're actually still mates to this day.
magpie215 said:
Sounds more like it happened trying to get to the loo......so one of those occasions where a window seat might be marginally better than aisle.
Re change of air.
The cabin is not an airtight sealed tube bleed air from the engine compressor stages is fed into the cabin constantly which provides both heating and air exchange the pressurisation controller will allow air overboard by the outflow valve.
Re change of air.
The cabin is not an airtight sealed tube bleed air from the engine compressor stages is fed into the cabin constantly which provides both heating and air exchange the pressurisation controller will allow air overboard by the outflow valve.
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