Passengers who were stuck on a quarantined Emirates flight at New York's John F Kennedy Airport with sick travelers are outraged staff didn't stop those who were ill from boarding the plane.
Several passengers spoke out on Wednesday slamming the airliner for not doing more to protect healthy travelers.
'It was obvious and audible that people were really sick,' said Erin Sykes, a fitness and health expert from Battery Park. 'What I heard was mostly coughing, very violent, violent, deep coughs, phlegm, just gross.'
Sykes said she noticed passengers were violently coughing while standing in line to board Flight 203 in Dubai, where it took off. The plane landed at JFK in Queens on Wednesday morning and was immediately quarantined after the pilot radioed that several passengers came down with an illness.
One passenger was seen being transported on a stretcher by paramedics to an ambulance
The woman was fully covered with blankets and was wearing a face mask
A passenger shared photos of passengers (left and right) getting their temperatures taken as they got off the plane
'They should have never let those people on the plane,' Sykes fumed during an interview with several media outlets. 'They don't let a drunk person on the plane; they shouldn't let sick people on the plane.'
She added: 'Then we saw a lot of people using the bathroom for an extended period. The bathrooms were unusable by the end.'
Muntaz Alli, who traveled to New York to visit family, said he also noticed 'quite a few passengers' showing signs they were sick before the plane took off. He said the guy seated next to him on the lower level had been coughing during the flight.
'I knew something was wrong with him,' Alli said.
Alli told media outlets that the flight departed on schedule, but about thirty minutes before arriving at JFK the pilot announced that there were 'a few ill people on board'.
'It wasn't alarming on the flight until half an hour before we started to descend, because we didn't know what was going on,' he said. 'Before that, it was a normal flight.'
Emirates did not yet return the DailyMail.com's request for comment on its policy allowing sick passengers to board a plane.
Eric Phillips, the press secretary for the City Hall, tweeted early Wednesday afternoon that the Emirates flight was a direct from Dubai but many passengers had traveled from Mecca, Saudi Arabia before boarding in Dubai.
He said about 19 passengers were sick. 10 were taken to the hospital and nine refused medical attention.
Erin Sykes slammed the airliner saying the sick passengers should not have been allowed to board the flight in Dubai
First responders (pictured) were waiting on the tarmac for the plane to arrive at the airport
Photos showed officials from the Port Authority Police and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention waiting in a staging area to check passengers after they landed
Passengers shared photos from inside the plane as they prepared to disembark
City Hall spokesman Eric Phillips tweeted Wednesday that early reports indicate the sickness was due to a flu outbreak
The New York Post reported that roughly 90 passengers, some of whom who were coughing and had fevers, were evaluated on the plane by medical personnel. Among the 10 hospitalized, the outlet reports that seven of them were crew members.
Phillips said in a tweet that early reports indicate that the cause of illness was due to a flu outbreak.
'All passengers are off and have been evaluated. 19 sick. 10 to hospital and 9 refused medical attention,' he tweeted shortly after 11:30am. 'Health officials are processing tests now to determine the cause. Symptoms still pointing to the flu'.
Some sick passengers were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center with non-life-threatening conditions, according to a New York City Fire Department spokesman.
Rapper Vanilla Ice was on the Emirates flight, but tweeted that he was seated on the top level of the double-decker plane and was fine.
'This is crazy. Apparently there is over 100 people sick on the bottom floor, so happy I'm up top, it's a double-decker plane 380,' he tweeted.
Larry Coben, who said he was on board the aircraft, wrote on Twitter that passengers had to fill out a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention form and that CDC personnel had boarded the aircraft.
He also shared photos of passengers getting their temperatures taken. 'Deplaning and having temperature taken,' Coben tweeted.
Passengers who were not ill were allowed to continue with their travel plans.
Rapper Vanilla Ice was onboard the Emirates flight that had to be quarantined Wednesday morning after several passengers fell ill
The rapper (pictured in April), whose real name is Robert Van Winkle, followed that tweet with a second one that expressed his relief of not being on the same level as the sick passengers
The double decker A380 aircraft, which was traveling from Dubai to New York City, landed at the Queens airport Wednesday morning shortly after 9am
Video from news helicopters showed the jet sitting on the tarmac surrounded by ambulances, vehicles and airport personnel.
Photos of the scene showed paramedics transporting passengers from the plane to the ambulances on stretchers.
Other photos showed officials from the Port Authority Police and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention waiting in a staging area to check passengers after they landed.
Passengers were exiting the plane with their luggage and getting on to buses. Some even shared photos from inside the plane as they prepared to disembark.
Passenger, Raghida Dergham, who was sitting in the business section of the aircraft praised how things were handled on the flight, saying all the sick passengers were seated in the lower-level economy section.
'I feel great. I feel fine,' she said. 'Nobody was alarmed. ... It was handled very well.'
Emirates released a statement saying customers' safety and care is their top priority.
A few passengers also tweeted about the flight. Larry Coben wrote on Twitter that passengers were being asked to fill out a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention form (pictured)
One passenger called the flight the 'worst' one ever in a tweet
Passenger, Raghida Dergham (right), said she was sitting in the business section of the aircraft and that the situation was 'handled very well'. But passenger, Srinivasa Rao (left) said the airline should have done more to protect its non-sick passengers
Shortly after the reports of nearly 100 people falling ill on the plane made its rounds on the internet, Emirates released a statement (pictured) on Twitter that claimed only 10 people had been treated
'Emirates can confirm that about 10 passengers on #EK203 from Dubai to New York were taken ill,' the statement read.
'On arrival, as a precaution, they were attended to by local health authorities. The safety & care of our customers is our first priority.'
Airport officials said Emirates Flight 203 was carrying 521 passengers.
The aircraft was taken to a location away from the terminal so that emergency officials could evaluate the situation, officials from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said they were monitoring the situation and President Donald Trump was being updated as new information became available.
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