An American Airbus A330 with 129 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing in Rome when sixteen people aboard it started vomiting and suffering from red eyes. The entire crew members were also taken ill.
According to information, the stench of vomit by the passengers and the crew could be smelt from the cabin, alerting those on board to the problem.
Ill passengers and crew members were taken by ambulance to a medical facility at Fiumicino Airport, near Rome, where the plane touched down at 1.38am local time.
Passengers noticed the pong at some point between the take-off at 11.30pm from Tel Aviv and the Rome landing three hours later.
A top official of the airline said: “the aircraft, an Airbus A330 with 129 passengers, landed safely in Rome early Saturday morning and all passengers have been re-accommodated on other flights.
“Two passengers and the crew were evaluated by medical personnel and have since been released.”
The flight had taken off from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv at 11:30pm Friday, bound for Philadelphia International Airport. [myad]
