- The Transavia aircraft was travelling from Schiphol Airport to Gran Canaria
- It diverted to the city of Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal
- Transavia confirmed the diversion saying it was due to ‘medical reasons’
An airplane full of tourists was forced to divert after a passenger’s foul-smelling body odour reportedly caused those around him to vomit and faint.
The Transavia Boeing 737 took off from Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands for Gran Canaria, but instead it touched down in Faro, Portugal.
At one point, flight crew reportedly tried to quarantine the ‘unwashed’ man in a toilet before the pilots decided to divert the flight.
A plane full of tourists on a Transavia flight had to make an emergency landing after a passenger’s foul-smelling body odour caused other holidaymakers to vomit and faint
Passengers reportedly became increasingly distressed by the stench of the male holidaymaker with some fainting and vomiting.
Due to the incident, the plane landed in Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, so the man could be removed.
A picture taken by one of the passengers show medical personnel taking the smelly man from the aeroplane 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’.
A picture taken by one of the passengers shows medical personnel taking the smelly man from the aeroplane 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’
He said: ‘It was like he hadn’t washed himself for several weeks. Several passengers got sick and had to puke.’
Transavia confirmed the diversion saying it was due to ‘medical reasons’.
It is not known why the man smelt so foul or what 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 was not 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 could not stop farting, which caused a brawl between several passengers.
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