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TikTok Star's Apology Puts Spotlight on United Flight Canceled by Diarrhea
Passenger Meghan Reinertsen’s food poisoning from an undercooked burger led to a 90-minute bathroom confinement and cancellation of a United Airlines flight, with hazmat cleanup required.
- Meghan Reinertsen suffered severe diarrhea and vomiting on a United Airlines flight from Portugal to the US last summer, causing its cancellation.
- She traced the incident to eating an undercooked hamburger the night before and was unprepared for the sudden illness aboard the plane.
- Reinertsen locked herself in the bathroom for 90 minutes while flight attendants assisted, and hazmat specialists had to clean the aircraft afterward.
- She expressed remorse to the passengers, explaining that she experienced a severe bout of diarrhea that was extremely intense, and noted that the flight was ultimately cancelled because of her.
- The flight crew canceled the plane's next scheduled departure, and Reinertsen expressed remorse for any negative impact caused by the cancellation.
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United Flight Canceled Over Woman’s ‘Biohazard’ Diarrhea
Flights get canceled for all kinds of reasons—storms, maintenance issues, or someone refusing to wear shoes. But a woman pooping and puking so hard that a hazmat team has to be called? That’s a new one. It happened last summer on a United flight from Newark to Indianapolis. Writer and actor Meghan Reinertsen had just landed from Portugal when she boarded her connection, already feeling queasy—thanks, she later realized, to an undercooked hamburg…
·New York, United States
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A United Airlines flight had to be canceled after a passenger got severe food poisoning and diarrhea on the plane made the in-flight bathroom completely unusable.
·Budapest, Hungary
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