What was the worst flight you ever took? Assigned to a seat the 5-year-old behind you won't stop kicking? Stuck for seven hours on the tarmac while waiting for the airline to find a part for a "minor repair"?

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.

The stinking passenger was escorted off the plane and handed over to a waiting ambulance and medical team.

But like the aroma of a roadkill skunk, the sickening smell lingered in the cabin. The crew decided against serving food or drinks because the odor was so offensive.

"Eventually we landed in Amsterdam with almost three hours delay," Van Haut said. "Nobody could stand the stench. Everyone tried to cover his nose."

It was the second incident in recent months in which a big stink led to a Transavia plane making an emergency landing. On a flight between Dubai and Amsterdam in February, a fight broke out between two male passengers, one of whom allegedly would not stop breaking wind despite repeated requests to stop, according to the New York Post and People.

The passengers were taken off the plane along with two sisters who were seated nearby the men. The sisters, who are of Moroccan and Dutch descent and say they had nothing to do with the men, are suing the airlines for alleged racial profiling.

In-plane odor disruptions don't happen that often, but when they do, they place flight crews in a difficult position. What do you do with passengers whose B.O. is so offensive, it's making other people ill — especially when the smelly passengers insist that's how they normally smell?

That was the situation in October when Spirit Airlines kicked a group of U.S. citizens off a plane they had just boarded in San Jose, Costa Rica.

The passengers disputed the assessment that they smelled bad, and after the airline said they would be put on a flight the next day, one told Spirit they would "smell the same tomorrow."