Sick passengers 'drop like flies' on UK flight

[Renew Deal]

A "sickness bug" on a UK flight resulted in passengers "dropping like flies", according to one witness.

Four people became ill on the Jet2 flight from Reus, Spain to Leeds Bradford Airport over the weekend, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The plane was met by emergency services on landing.

One passenger, Nicola Titley, wrote on Facebook that "people dropping like flies on the plane".

"Never seen so many emergency vehicles surround a plane so fast after landing."

Joint emergency service response to Leeds / Bradford airport tonight after reports of a number of people falling ill on an in-bound flight. Fortunately nothing more than a sickness bug. #Police #leeds #Bradford pic.twitter.com/4xSXLN67f6
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/106771023/sick-passengers-drop-like-flies-on-uk-flight

[NewJeffCT]

1. I suspect it's the start of

The Zombie Apocalypse

[Renew Deal]

4. Pretty much every movie starts like this

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Better hope to fuck it isnt an epidemic, our country is under the control of a complete

idiot who answers to our enemy who would love to see most of us dead.

Having said that, maybe if it is an epidemic

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/characters/nm0000163?ref_=tt_cl_t1
can help

[JHB]

12. Dunno. Could be the Planet of the Apes virus

[gopiscrap]

2. yikes that's the second report of illness in flight

[marybourg]

3. A "sickness bug"?

[Ms. Toad]

5. Nothing more than a "sickness bug"???????

Far as I know, pretty deadly - and contagious - things like - say Ebola - could be classified as "sicnekss bugs"

[berni_mccoy]

6. Uh oh... this in relation to the flight that landed in NY from UAE... somethings up.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. THis is NOT the same plane?

[berni_mccoy]

10. No, and now there are 3 planes. France, New Zealand and NY

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. Saw that now.

Yeah, well, I know what I suspect.

Worst case scenario exists because we actually have someone with the mind of a 9 yr old in the WH who is literally owned by an enemy who wants to see many of us dead or removed from economic and political power.

Whether putin is behind something like this or not, doesn't matter, (whether there is a "this" or not yet we dont know) he will manage to gain from it somehow at OUR expense.

[LisaM]

13. It's weird, but it could also be as simple as the airlines making it difficult to change plans.

I mean, if you were unwell, but knew that changing a flight would incur hundreds of dollars (if not more) in change fees, that the airlines would make no effort to accommodate you on a later flight - especially on a different airline - and that if you were on a cheapskate airline like Frontier, a changed flight could be up to two days later, you might take your chances.

I haven't flown sick, but I've been a party to, or known people who have been a party to, all the scenarios described above. I pick up more colds and coughs on planes than anywhere else, including my daily commute on the bus. If the airlines had a more generous policy about making changes, maybe we wouldn't have three flights within one or two days where people were all exposed to something.

I don't know what's really going on with all these flights, but the airlines are so punitive about making changes, I can only suspect that it's a contributing factor that people chose to fly rather than deal with the ramifications of trying to reschedule.

[MontanaMama]

7. What is a "sickness bug"?

Some coincidence with the Emirates flight at JFK being quarantined but still gives me the willies. I'm a nut with bleach wipes on a plane as it is.

[TwistOneUp]

14. You're not a nut, dear. It's actually a great idea! nt

[JPK]

15. Putin.....nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Meh. 2 people ill, not 4.

A spokesman for Jet 2 said: ""We can confirm that the crew on board flight LS298 from Reus to Leeds Bradford Airport arranged an ambulance for two passengers who were taken ill.

"The crew were alerted to a further two, non-associated cases of passengers feeling unwell on board.

"On arrival, as a precaution they were immediately checked over in the ambulance before heading home.

"All other passengers disembarked as normal and continued their journeys. The safety and care of our customers is always our first priority.’’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/02/flight-met-emergency-services-passengers-drop-like-flies-sickness/

That was on Saturday. Illnesses do happen. Even on separate days, on different continents.