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compressor stall
Before people get too worked up about that and aircraft recirculating air etc, remember that the cabin air recirc filters are HEPA and equivalent to hospital operating standard for particulate filtering. Also air comes from overhead and out through the floor , so no fore aft air movement.
There is a genuine health concern for the few people around him and they should be quarantined, but not the whole aircraft.
Ps That’s for Airbus- can’t speak for Boeing. I do t know what type he flew on.
The behaviour of the virus is more the problem than the behaviour of the aircraft.
The WHO will belatedly admit today that it is actually a pandemic.
The way the virus behaves is not yet known.
It was only yesterday Australian shining light of intellect, Dan Tehan (Education Minister) claimed it was not transmissible person to person, despite confirmation that such transmission had occured in both Japan and Germany.