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Delta faces US investigation after flight passengers record bloody ears and noses

Delta faces US investigation after flight passengers record bloody ears and noses
September 19, 2024



The Federal Aviation Management (FAA) is investigating a Delta Air Traces flight after pressurization problems led to some passengers to mention they suffered ruptured eardrums and nosebleeds and compelled the airplane to show round.On Sunday, the flight, a Boeing 737-900, was once touring from Salt Lake Town, Utah, to Portland, Oregon, when it was once compelled to make an emergency touchdown again in Salt Lake Town because of pressurization problems.Chatting with KSLTV, one passenger, Caryn Allen, stated she appeared over and spotted her husband was once leaning ahead in his seat and had either one of his palms over his ears. Allen then spotted different passengers in ache too, announcing: “I appeared a couple of row in the back of me over at the different aspect of the aisle and there was once a gentleman that obviously had an excessively dangerous bloody nostril and folks had been looking to assist him.”In a similar way, some other passenger, Jaci Purser, advised the TV station that she felt like someone was once stabbing her ear and that she felt her ear pop. “I grabbed my ear and I pulled my hand again and there was once blood on it,” Purser stated.Following the emergency touchdown, paramedics known a minimum of 10 out of the 140 passengers on board who wanted clinical consideration and Delta introduced to pay for the transportation to the sanatorium.In a commentary following the incident, Delta stated: “We sincerely ask for forgiveness to our consumers for his or her revel in on flight 1203 on September 15. The flight workforce adopted procedures to go back to SLC the place our groups at the flooring supported our consumers with their fast wishes,” KSLTV reported.“Delta technicians labored the pressurization factor at the plane effectively. It was once taken out of carrier at the morning of September 15 and went again into carrier on September 16,” the airline added.The FAA stated it was once investigating the incident.

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