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A Delta flight was forced to turn around after one passenger on board suffered diarrhea “all the way through the plane.” The flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was two hours into its journey on Friday evening when the pilot asked if he could turn back. In a video clip from LiveATC.com, posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), one of the pilots is heard confirming the incident to air traffic control, saying: “It’s just a biohazard issue, we had a passenger who had diarrhea all the way through the airplane so they want us to come back to Atlanta.” Flight 194 had to decisively make a U-turn back to its departure destination as it was considered a “biohazard” by the crew to continue to journey. The plane arrived back in Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport at 10.40pm to clean up the diarrhea on the plane. Over five hours later at 3am, the aircraft set off again to Barcelona for an eight-hour flight. One X user commented under the posted clip and claimed both he and his wife were on that flight. He said: “Both my wife and I were on the flight. It was a mess. The pilots made the right decision to turn around. The ground crew ripped out the carpet and put new in. Considering the circumstances, the ground crew did a great job, along [with] the attendants and the pilots.”<br/>

GS Caltex, Korea's second-biggest refiner by sales, said Tuesday it has supplied Finnish refiner Neste's renewable aviation fuel to Korean Air's cargo plane bound for Los Angeles. It is the first time for a Korean refiner to bring sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from overseas for the use of the renewable jet fuel in a domestic aircraft. GS Caltex has received SAF from Neste, a Finnish oil company and the world's biggest producer of renewable diesel and jet fuel refined from waste and residues, for the domestic supply, the company said. But the company did not provide the value of the supply deal and supply volumes. The Korean Air cargo plane, which has filled 2% of its fuel tank with SAF, is set to fly to Los Angeles at 5:45 p.m. from Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. "This marks the first time that our SAF has been delivered to Korea, and we look forward to further expanding our cooperation with both Korean Air and GS Caltex in the future," Sami Jauhiainen, acting executive vice president from the renewable aviation business unit at Neste, said in the statement. GS Caltex said it will expand business partnerships with Neste and seek opportunities to supply the renewable jet fuel to other airlines in Korea. Korean Air said it is planning six demonstration flights on LA-bound cargo planes using SAF by November. Based on the demonstration flights, the government plans to set standards regarding the quality of renewable aviation fuel, safety, fuel efficiency and others, Korean Air said. The national flag carrier has used SAF on its passenger jets from Paris to Incheon since February last year in a move to join global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. But SAF is not used in passenger jets from Incheon to Paris.<br/>