Vegas flight quarantined, 11 sick on board

[islandhopper]

Report: Las Vegas flight quarantined Updated 7/23/2006 5:56 PM ET


DENVER (AP) — A section of the airport at Las Vegas, Nev., was closed for several hours after a flight arrived from Denver with 11 sick people on board, officials said Sunday.

Passengers and crewmembers on United Airlines Flight 1491 were quarantined for several hours Saturday night at McCarran International Airport while the plane, passengers and luggage were checked by hazardous materials experts, said Elaine Sanchez, a McCarran spokeswoman.

Four of the victims were flight attendants, Sanchez said.

Sanchez said the cause was still being investigated. A passenger, Don Yarbrough, told KUSA TV of Denver that investigators believed the victims reacted to a cleaning fluid containing ammonia that had been used on the plane after it arrived in Denver from Cancun, Mexico.

A United spokeswoman in Chicago, Robin Urbanski, said victims felt weak and nauseous but she had no other details.

There were 143 passengers and crew on the plane when it landed in Las Vegas.

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Posted 7/23/2006 1:00 PM ET

 

[Tail Gunner Joe]

I saw 11 ambulances parked around a "Ted" aircraft behind terminal D in LAS saturday night.

 

[Slippery Mick]

People are just sick of United's service.

 

[CA1900]

uke:

"All right, now we know what we're up against. Every passenger who had fish for dinner will get violently ill in the next few hours. It starts with a slight fever and dryness of the throat... Until finally, the poor bastard is reduced to a quivering, wasted piece of jelly."

 

[Fearless Tower]

People are just sick of United's service.

Amen to that!

 

[big_al]

uke:

"All right, now we know what we're up against. Every passenger who had fish for dinner will get violently ill in the next few hours. It starts with a slight fever and dryness of the throat... Until finally, the poor bastard is reduced to a quivering, wasted piece of jelly."

We all had the choice, chicken or fish.

Thats right, I had the lasanga

 

[Say Again Over]

Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

 

[big_al]

I like my coffee like my men, black

 

[ReportCanoa]

All-you-can-eat buffet at the Riviera would do it.

 

[AerroMatt]

"We have clearance, Clarence."

"Roger, Roger! What's our vector, Victor?"