- The plane travelling from Mallorca to Luton made an emergency landing in Paris
- Doctors boarded the plane and the first officer was taken away in an ambulance
- It is believed the overwhelming scent was caused by a hydraulic fluid leak
An easyJet flight was forced to make an emergency landing after some crew members and passengers were overcome by a ‘smell event’, the airline said.
The plane, travelling from Palma, Mallorca, to Luton Airport had to be diverted to Paris where doctors and paramedics boarded the aircraft and the first officer was taken away in an ambulance.
One passenger told The Sunday Times the co-pilot had to be given oxygen from a tank while in the air and that she saw a child ‘vomiting in the back’.
An easyJet flight was forced to make an emergency landing after some crew members and passengers were overcome by a ‘smell event’
Once the plane was boarded an official came on board to check the air quality in the cabin before everyone was ordered to disembark.
EasyJet said engineers examining the aircraft later found ‘a leakage of hydraulic fluid’ which it believes caused the overwhelming scent.
A spokesman for the airline described the incident, which took place on October 3, as a ‘smell event’.
He said: ‘We can confirm the captain took the decision to divert to Paris due to some passengers and crew feeling unwell. He took the decision as a precaution only and the aircraft landed routinely.’
Last week an easyJet flight travelling from Glasgow to Berlin had to request an early landing slot after reports of a smoke smell in the cabin.
The aircraft was reported to have descended ‘at high speed’.
An easyJet spokeswoman said passengers disembarked normally after landing and engineers were brought on board to resolve the issue.