A Boston-bound United Airlines flight was diverted on Sunday after both passengers and crew began vomiting due to a passenger-involved biohazard incident that forced an emergency landing in the nation’s capital.
United Airlines flight 2477 departed from Houston at 9:39 a.m. CT on Sunday destined for Boston, but was forced to reroute when a customer became sick, the airline told DailyMail.com.
The plane, a Boeing 737-800, was diverted to Washington Dulles International Airport, landing at 1:36 p.m. ET, according to FlightAware.
‘Especially with this kind of being a biohazard, I think we need to get this plane on the ground ASAP,’ a pilot on board said to air traffic control in audio shared on X.
Despite the on board drama, known of the 155 passengers or six crew members required medical assistance after the plane landed in Dulles.
‘The crew is vomiting and passengers all around are asking for masks, etc.
‘I talked to the crew and it sounds like it’s quite bad back there.’
‘The aircraft is currently undergoing a deep clean and we are working to get customers on their way to Boston soon,’ United said.
Flight tracking shows the aircraft is set to leave Dulles and continue its journey to Boston at 3:40 p.m. ET.
A biohazard event is generally classified as exposure to a biological substance such as feces, vomit or blood, that could harm a person’s health.
In September 2023, a dramatic biohazard incident forced a Delta Airbus A350 en route from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to turn back after a passenger suffered an horrific bout of diarrhea.
The outbreak prompted a five-hour clean-up operation, with carpets being torn up and vanilla scented disinfectant being deployed.
One disturbed passenger took to social media, saying that her partner reported that the offending excrement had been dribbling down the aisle.
Sunday’s incident not the first incident to occur on the route this year.
In March, the United Airlines flight 2477, veered off the runway when the pilot failed to slow down enough.
That incident forced the evacuation of the 161 passengers and six crew members.
The summer of bizarre incidents on board flights amid the vacation season shows no signs of letting up.
On July 9, a passenger bit a chunk of fabric out of a United Airlines flight attendant’s shirt and told an ‘old lady’ she should ‘go back to Russia’ during a mid-fight meltdown.
The woman was on United Airlines Flight 762 from Miami to Newark but barely made it off the runway before she became unruly over a petty toilet squabble.
Video recorded by another traveler began after the crew restrained her wrists with zip-ties and she was wrestling with three of them.
Suddenly she bit one of their shoulders, tearing off a piece of fabric and letting it float to the floor in front of the shocked plane.
‘Stop touching me… let go of me, I’m a f**king girl, are you trying to kill me?’ she shouted afterwards.