This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Scarlett Kiaras-Attari, a marketing executive and education content creator who moved to the UK for her studies. It has been edited for length and clarity.
16.08.2024 - 15:36 / insider.com / Nova Scotia / Delta
A Delta Air Lines flight turned around and seven crew members were taken to hospital after concerns about an odor on board.
The Airbus A330 was flying from Boston to Paris last Wednesday but U-turned less than an hour after departure while over the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, according to FlightAware data.
A report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, in whose airspace the issue was reported, says that the captain noted discomfort in his eyes while taxiing before takeoff. The first officer also detected a slight odor, it added.
After the plane took off, the flight attendants told the captain that an odor had been detected in the cabin, per the TSB report. However, it added, the relief first officer tasked to investigate this didn't notice anything.
According to the TSB, several minutes into the flight, numerous flight attendants became ill, and passengers complained about the smell.
The pilots then carried out the fume checklist and returned to Boston.
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Upon landing, the captain, first officer, and five flight attendants were taken to hospital, the TSB report said. They were all released after being evaluated.
It isn't clear what caused the odor or what the odor was.
Maintenance personnel replaced recirculation filters and the plane returned to service two days later.
"As nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people, the flight crew of Delta flight 224 on August 7 followed procedures to return to Boston after an odor was detected on board," an airline spokesperson said.
"The aircraft landed without incident and proceeded to the gate normally," the statement added. "We apologize to our customers for the disruption and delay to their travel plans; we're working to get them to their final destinations as quickly as possible."
This isn't the first time in recent weeks that a plane turned around due to a strange smell in the cabin.
Last month, a British Airways Airbus A380 made an emergency landing after an "overpowering scent" of laundry detergent filled the plane, making people feel sick and dizzy.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Scarlett Kiaras-Attari, a marketing executive and education content creator who moved to the UK for her studies. It has been edited for length and clarity.
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Good morning from Skift. It’s Wednesday, August 14, and now here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.
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The tonka bean, a wizened-looking South American seed, is beloved for its complex almond-vanilla scent, often appearing as an ingredient in perfumes. Outside the United States, it has also long been utilized by chefs, but studies have indicated that coumarin, a chemical compound in the plant, can cause liver damage in animals, and the Food and Drug Administration banned the bean in commercial foods in 1954. Now, with reports that the minuscule amounts used to impart big flavor are harmless (and the F.D.A. seemingly not particularly interested in enforcing the ban in recent years), tonka is showing up on dessert menus here. Thea Gould, 30, the pastry chef at the daytime luncheonette La Cantine and evening wine bar Sunsets in Bushwick, Brooklyn, was introduced to tonka after the restaurant’s owner received a jar from France, where it’s a widely used ingredient. Gould says the bean is an ideal stand-in for nuts — a common allergen — and infuses it into panna cotta, whipped cream and Pavlova. Ana Castro, 35, the chef and owner of the New Orleans seafood restaurant Acamaya, discovered tonka as a young line cook at Betony, the now-closed Midtown Manhattan restaurant. Entranced by the ingredient’s grassy, stone fruit-like notes, she’s used it to flavor a custardy corn nicuatole, steeped it into roasted candy squash purée and grated it fresh over a lush tres leches cake. And at the Musket Room in New York’s NoLIta, the pastry chef Camari Mick, 30, balances tonka’s richness with acidic citrus like satsuma and bergamot. Over the past year, she’s incorporated it into a silky lemon bavarois and a candy cap mushroom pot de crème and whipped it into ganache for a poached pear belle Hélène. “Some people ask our staff, ‘Isn’t tonka illegal?’” she says. Their answer: Our pastry chef’s got a guy. —
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