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Passengers on a Philadelphia-bound US Airways flight last week had a crappy trip when a pet onboard went to the bathroom while the plane was airborne, forcing an emergency landing.
"About an hour into the flight, I started smelling this terrible smell,” passenger Steve McCall told Inside Edition. “I look up the aisle way and there's a dog pooping right in the middle of the aisle. It's a big dog, three or four feet tall or long, and he was just going!"
“An hour later, it still smelled bad, and after they cleaned it all up, it pooped again,” McCall said. “A couple of people started dry-heaving, a couple of people were throwing up."
To make matters worse, the cleaning crew ran out of cleaning supplies and finally the pilot came on the speaker to announce that the flight would be making an emergency landing in Kansas City, Missouri.

According to McCall, the dog’s owner was also apologetic about the incident and asked for passengers’ addresses to send a conciliatory Starbucks gift card.

Sounds like a service dog of some type since it was in teh cabin. At least the owner was wanting to try to make a ammends for the incident. Even a $5 Starbucks card for every passenger would be costly.

wow, that stinks...

With all the many flights with service dogs, is this a first?

I'm betting it isn't, but pusillanimity must be multiplying...if some poor blind, or in some way incapacitated person's service dog takes a ...nature break, suck it up, well, I mean tolerate it for awhile. Don't make that person offer to make amends.

Stuff happens...grow up!

What a bunch of weenies!

Abraham wrote:With all the many flights with service dogs, is this a first?

I'm betting it isn't, but pusillanimity must be multiplying...if some poor blind, or in some way incapacitated person's service dog takes a ...nature break, suck it up, well, I mean tolerate it for awhile. Don't make that person offer to make amends.

Stuff happens...grow up!

What a bunch of weenies!

Seems to me it all depends on what the dog had been consuming.

Speaking of depends, maybe the airlines should demand diapers on dogs.

Anygunanywhere

I am a retired Delta Pilot and I had to make an un-scheduled stop because of a noxious odor in the cabin. People were sick and light headed. Once on the ground, the ground crew opened up the aft baggage compartment and saw that it was loaded with mushrooms. I guess you know what mushrooms are grown in (and packed in).... cow poop

My brother had a Dane and he fed it a particular dog food because of a skin condition. I have walked him, the dog, and the smell would knock you over at 50 feet. When the dog just got regular food it was no big problem.

Yikes, this would not be a fun flight, but what can you do? You can't exactly ask a dog not to poo! LOL I feel for the passengers, though, because we came home yesterday to find that our German Shepherd had diarrhea. Not a pleasant smell.....can't imagine being trapped with it in a plane!

Service dogs are highly trained and I have never known one to just do it's business wherever. The poor dog must have been sick or at least ate something that gave it serious digestive issues. Diverting the plane seems pretty extreme but I guess that flight must have been full of city folks.

Used to travel with a dog quite a bit and we wouldn't feed the dog within 12 hours of the flight to prevent this very possibility.