🚨A United flight from Newark had a medical issue involving a passenger in the bathroom.
🚨A 62-year-old woman reportedly spent about 90 minutes in the lavatory.
🚨 The flight landed safely and she was taken off for medical attention.
A United flight from Newark was met by medical personnel after a woman spent about 90 minutes in the bathroom during the flight.
The website acarsdrama.com, which monitors the unencrypted short text-like messages sent between ground stations and aircraft, picked up several messages about United flight 486 between Newark and Orlando on Thursday. They indicated a passenger had spent an unusually long time in one of the bathrooms on the Boeing 737 MAX 8.
“Could we get [runway 17L]? We’ve got a passenger in the bathroom; it’s kind of an emergency,” one of the pilots said, according to liveATC.net.
Passenger reportedly sick for 90 minutes
Subsequent ACARS messages said the 62-year-old woman had been throwing up for 90 minutes. United said the flight landed safely and the woman was taken off the plane for medical attention…