More than 75 of the 201 passengers aboard Air Canada flight 085 from Tel Aviv to Toronto were placed in quarantine immediately upon their arrival at Pearson Airport Tuesday night after a number of travelers fell ill, the Toronto Star reported.
“They didn’t tell us anything,” said passenger of the ordeal. “They totally kept us in the dark.”
Air Canada representative Angela Mah was quoted by the Star as saying that during the flight, three people traveling with an organized group fell ill with flu-like symptoms.
“It is our standard operating procedure to have health officials meet the aircraft on arrival in cases like this,” said Mah.
However, passenger Matt Coleman Coleman told the newspaper that health officials did not meet the travelers until they reached customs. “They did not separate the sick people from the ones who weren’t sick. We were all just put in a room, given ‘bunny suits’ and told to stay put,” he was quoted as saying.
Coleman said there were eight people sick on the plane, not three.
“They started getting feverish and throwing up in the lavatories,” he said.
Coleman told the newspaper that nearly two hours passed until he was cleared by health officials, adding that all the other passengers were allowed to leave with the exception of the original eight.
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