Margaret Cho has her own ‘diarrhea on a plane’ story: Smell was ‘not human’

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In Cho’s video, posted to TikTok on Wednesday, and currently viewed over 570,000 times, she said, “Diarrhea on a plane? I’ve had it…I kept going up and down and going to the bathroom and then sitting back down.

And the smell was so bad, but also not human, that other people near me started to think there was something wrong with the plane.”Cho said that the other passengers got alarmed, thinking there might be something wrong with the jet fuel.

They were so worried that they alerted the airplane personnel. “I dissociated, I put my AirPods in,” Cho said. “I just watched as people started to panic and look around.” She said she was so mortified, she didn’t see how the flight attendants explained the situation.

In the September 1 incident that prompted Cho to share this anecdote, a Delta Airbus A350 flying to Barcelona, Spain, made a U-turn and returned to Atlanta where it had departed to be cleaned due to a “medical issue” on board.“We’ve had a passenger who’s had diarrhea all the way through the airplane, so they want us to come back to Atlanta,” a pilot told air traffic control. “Our teams worked as quickly and safely as possible to thoroughly clean the airplane and get our customers to their final destination,” a Delta spokesperson said. “We sincerely apologize to our customers for the delay and inconvenience to their travel plans.”“It was an experience that I hope no one has to go through,” passenger Marie Beals-Basinger told the Daily Mail. “I hope the poor woman that had this experience recovers.”“It was pretty bad,” fellow passenger Dee W wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “The vanilla-scented disinfectant used on it only made it smell like vanilla s–t.” Another passenger, Xansby Swanson, who.