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A plane was forced to make an emergency landing after a smelly passenger caused others to vomit and faint.
The flight to the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria was forced to make an unexpected detour as passengers became distressed by the stench of the “unwashed” man. He smelt so bad that other passengers started fainting and vomiting after the flight took off from Schiphol Airport, which serves the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.
Staff on board the Transavia service reportedly tried to quarantine him in the toilet of the Boeing 737 before the pilots diverted the flight. They landed in the city of Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, so the man could be removed from the flight.
A picture taken by one of the passengers show medical personnel loading the man into a bus.
Belgian passenger Piet van Haut was one of the passengers on board the plane and described the stench of the man in question as “unbearable”.
“It was like he hadn’t washed himself for several weeks. Several passengers got sick and had to puke.”
In a statement Transavia confirmed the emergency landing, saying it was due to “medical reasons”.
It isn’t known why the man smelled so bad and what other medical issues he was suffering from.
A Transavia spokesman said the aeroplane diverted because of medical reasons, “but it is indeed right that he smelled quite a bit."
Bizarrely, it wasn’t the first smelly incident on a Transavia flight this year.
In February, a Transavia plane from Dubai to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency landing in the Austrian capital of Vienna after a passenger couldn’t stop farting, leading to a brawl among several passengers.