Melanie Wells, 61, became unwell shortly after take-off while travelling with her 19-year-old daughter from Gatwick to Egypt for an eight-day holiday. Other passengers and some cabin crew also became ill, prompting a diversion to Venice. Emergency services, police, ambulances and fire engines surrounded the aircraft; hazmat teams boarded wearing full breathing apparatus and using scanning equipment. Crew members moved urgently along the aisles and passengers received testing. The flight experienced an eight-hour delay in Italy, returned to Gatwick, and passengers reached Sharm El Sheikh the next morning, leaving travellers exhausted and their holiday disrupted.
Shortly after take-off, Melanie began to feel unwell and initially blamed the cabin temperature. But she claims the situation quickly worsened as other passengers and members of the cabin crew also fell sick. The aircraft diverted to Venice, where, according to Melanie, emergency services rushed to the tarmac. She said the plane was soon surrounded by ambulances and fire engines as hazmat teams boarded wearing full breathing apparatus and scanning equipment.
About an hour and a half in the air, crew members suddenly began running down the aisle backwards and forwards. I didn't know what was going on, she said. We were told nothing the whole time. We landed and the whole plane was surrounded by police, ambulances, fire services. And then men in hazmat suits with full breathing apparatus came on board with what I assume were [testing devices], running them over the stewards and stewardesses, then doing it to the passengers affected.
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