For passengers of budget Dutch flier Transavia Airlines, it may have been Tuesday's flight from Gran Canaria to Amsterdam.

In the last row of the Boeing 737 sat a man who stank so bad, passengers in the entire compartment were gagging, according to Belgian broadcaster VRT. Several became violently ill and vomited in their seats.

"The smell made me think that the man hadn't washed for weeks," passenger Piet Van Haut told VRT.

Eventually, the fetid air became so unbearable, flight attendants quarantined the man in a lavatory. But even that didn't ease the overpowering stench. As a last resort, the captain decided to make an emergency landing in Faro, Portugal.

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