Brit vomits 30 times and leaves the flight in wheelchair after eating flight pasta on Etihad Airways – Community

A Briton ended up leaving a wheelchair flight after vomiting “about 30 times” after eating a dinner of food by plane.

Cameron Callaghan was flying with Etihad Airways from Manchester to Bangkok via Abu Dhabi in January when he became bad.

The former delivery man had eaten an egg sandwich three hours before the plane and had received a meal of pasta after takeoff. The “flight of hell” had been delayed by five hours and the man believes that food had not been stored properly during this period.

“When we finally mounted, they gave us food, then I ate that and put a film. It was a tomato, cheese and chicken pasta,” said Cameron.

“It felt a little weird but all the fact of the food by plane.”

Etihad Airways insists that they “have prepared and stored food in strict temperature conditions” and no other passengers who had the same reported food problems.

But he says that around 20 minutes later, he had “diarrhea twice”, then “vomited constantly during the duration of the flight”.

The Bolton Lad continued: “I vomited about 30 times. I had to sit at the back of the plane with an air hostess while she kept the toilet without me.

“I was going to the toilet every five minutes, lying in a fetal position and towards the end of the flight, I had so much emptied my body that I couldn’t even get up.”

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Cameron says that when they landed at Zayed International Airport, Abu Dhabi, he was so dehydrated that he couldn’t even live his head.

“So they had to take a wheelchair and made me climb to the medical room at Abu Dhabi airport,” he added.

It is sure that the butty egg in advance “was certainly not the cause”, as was the case in the airport for three hours after that and “felt very well”.

Cameron says it ruined the first days of his long holidays. (Kennedy News and Media)

“I didn’t even eat the day before because I was stressed because of the delayed flight,” said the traveler.

An airport doctor evaluated it and gave it an IV and an anti-mailbox drop, the incident leaving it “so weak” at the start of its holidays.

“The next two or three days after I arrived in Bangkok, I was just sleeping,” said Cameron. “It was only the third day I left the hotel and started to explore.”

Of course, he would not have been sick so shortly after eating pasta “if it did not come from their food”, the man wants a refund for the flight from Eithad Airways.

“I want recognition of food poisoning and for them to say sorry,” he said, adding the claim: “They did not take food intoxication seriously, they did not take the appropriate precautions. He is not professional in the way they have treated everything.”

He said he was so dehydrated that he couldn’t raise his head. (Kennedy News and Media)

Cameron says it was “embarrassing” on the flight and “ruined the first days” of the holidays he had been planning for three years.

Now he says he’s going to “hung me” on the flight so that it does not happen again.

A spokesperson for Etihad Airways said: “We are aware of the recent report of a passenger who fell ill aboard our Manchester flight on January 06, 2025.

“We take all these questions very seriously and investigate.

“Our food on this flight, as for all our flights, has been prepared and stored in strict conditions at controlled temperature to ensure safety and quality.

“We have not received any disease report from other passengers on this flight that were served the same meal. Our first priority is always the safety and well-being of our passengers and our crew.”