JetBlue makes emergency landing due to odor

[Cajun_Flyer]

A flight going from Boston to San Diego landed in Buffalo, NY last night due to an "overpowering" odor that made crew members ill and gave pax headaches. Some pax said they smelled gas.

The pilots and FAs were taken to a hospital after landing.

http://www.masslive.com/news/boston...ge_odor_prompts_jetblue_f.html#incart_m-rpt-2

http://www.fox25boston.com/news/str...om-boston-to-make-emergency-landing/588202862

 

[eman1200]

man, that stinks.

 

[SkyDog58]

Seems that someone had way too many Boston beans before the flight.

 

[Zeldman]

A friend of mine told me that his favorite plane is any plane that has a three man crew.

Two person crew, one passes gas, it is immediately known by the non-passer who did it. Not so with a three person crew....


I wonder if they squawked it.... unapproved odor in plane......

 

[dmspilot]

Make jokes if you wish but it's known as a fume event.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/airline-workers-warn-of-dangerous-fumes-onboard

Caused primarily by tricresyl phosphate, an organophosphate used as a jet engine oil additive that can leak into the cabin through bleed air.

 

[JOhnH]

Make jokes if you wish...

Ok
I wonder if they would have made that emergency landing if it had only been passengers that were feeling ill?

 

[danhagan]

Was on a flight a few years ago that an old gentleman ripped it so bad that every pax within 3 rows was vomiting. Anyone else just crapping their pants would've been much easier to tolerate. I'm in the medical field and have been exposed to some horrendous smells, but his was worse than some of the liver abscesses we've drained ... he definitely needed a colonoscopy to see what was necrosing up there

 

[kayoh190]

I wonder if they squawked it.... unapproved odor in plane......

We're pretty sensitive to strange odors in the cabin (other than obvious bodily ones!) - as @dmspilot posted fume events can be a big deal, and we're trained to recognize one when it happens. In addition to being written up (squawked) in the mx logbook, there's specific fume event paperwork that needs to be completed too. I've never personally had it happen to me, but it probably occurs more frequently than people realize.

 

[RyanB]

man, that stinks.

I at least thought it was funnier than the guy in the gif did. But anyway, bu dum tsh.

 

[Greg Bockelman]

Ok
I wonder if they would have made that emergency landing if it had only been passengers that were feeling ill?

I would hope so.