A Transavia flight from the Canary Islands to Amsterdam had to make an emergency landing in Faro last month, due to the nauseating bad smell coming from a passenger.
Andrey Suchilin, a Russian musician, was taken to Faro Hospital’s intensive care unit but did not recover from an infection that has been the cause of the odour and died on Monday.
At the end of May, a Boeing 737 from Transavia was forced to divert to Faro Airport. The stench coming from the musician had made several passengers unwell and, even putting Suchilin in the toilet to try and contain the smell was no use and the Captain diverted the flight to the Algarve.
"Andrey died," wrote close friend Lydia Tikhonovich after an earlier blog that had explained that Suchilin had serious health problems that caused the bad smell which had led to the flight diversion.
At the time it was reported that "the man smelled bad to the point that the passengers said that it seemed like he had not showered for weeks."
Several passengers felt ill, vomited or fainted inside the aircraft after it had taken off for Schiphol in the Netherlands.
The particular infection was not reported by Suchilkin's medical team but a ‘necrosis’ was mentioned as the cause of the smell – this is defined as the death of most or all of the cells in an organ or tissue due to disease, injury, or failure of the blood supply.
Andrey Suchilin
