Plane forced to make emergency landing after passenger’s smell made others vomit and faint

A plane was forced to make an emergency landing because a passenger’s body odour was so bad it made others vomit and faint. The Transavia flight from Amsterdam to Gran Canaria was grounded in Faro, southern Portugal, where the man was removed from the flight. Staff reportedly tried to quarantine the man in the toilet before the pilots were eventually forced to divert the plane and make the emergency landing. ‘Several passengers got sick and had to puke’ Belgian passenger Piet van Haut described the smell as “unbearable”, the Mirror reported. “It was like he hadn’t washed himself for several weeks. Several passengers got sick and had to puke,” he said. The Boeing 737 – which took off from Schiphol Airport – was grounded for “medical reasons”.

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