Flight 194 was two hours into its journey on Friday evening when the pilot reportedly asked to head back.
In audio posted to X (formerly Twitter) he said a passenger had had diarrhoea “all the way through the airplane”. “We’ve had a passenger who’s had diarrhoea all the way through the airplane, so they want us to come back to Atlanta,” says the audio recording on X, allegedly from air traffic control.
In a statement to the Insider website, Delta confirmed there had been a “medical issue” on board which meant the plane had to return to Atlanta to be cleaned.
A flight of extremes - extremely embarassing for the passenger and extremely unpleasant for everyone else on board.
Presumably the passenger was heading for the toilet but couldn’t prevent bowel evacuation on the way … 
