Crappy travels.
A transatlantic Delta flight needed to be diverted to Recent York City after a passenger experienced an apparent bout of diarrhea inflight, in keeping with a viral post on X.
The Airbus A330 had been flying from Boston, Massachusetts to Rome, Italy last Friday but turned around over the Atlantic Ocean about an hour into the flight, data from Flightradar24 shows.
The aircraft then reportedly landed at JFK, after which the 281 passengers were transferred to a different plane, per Business Insider.
A Delta spokesperson attributed the diversion to a “customer medical issue en route,” but neglected to specify the character of the issue.
Nevertheless, the Twitter account @OnlyInBoston said that the incident involved a “passenger who had severe bouts of diarrhea throughout their seat.”
Delta reps have since addressed the airplane “accident,” saying, “Delta apologizes to our customers for the delay of their travels from Boston to Rome on Friday night. We thank them for his or her patience because the aircraft diverted to Recent York-JFK before continuing to Rome early Saturday morning.”
The unique airplane resumed service about 20 hours after the possibly odiferous ordeal.
This wouldn’t be the primary time a Delta flight needed to be diverted resulting from diarrhea.
In essentially the most infamous “brownout” in September, a Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to make a U-turn and an emergency landing after a flyer soiled themself midflight.
“This can be a biohazard issue,” the pilot declared to air traffic control. “We’ve had a passenger who’s had diarrhea all through the airplane, in order that they want us to return back to Atlanta.”
Footage taken through the aftermath shows a brown trail running down the length of the airplane aisle with paper towels on most heavily soiled areas in an try and obscure the view.
