A B757 PIC ELECTS TO RETURN LAND WHEN 2 FLT ATTENDANTS RPT FUMES OF AN ELECTRICAL NATURE THAT MADE THEM FEEL ILL AFTER TKOF FROM TTPP; FO.

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SHORTLY AFTER DEP; 2 FLT ATTENDANTS RPTED A STRANGE SMELL. 1 FLT ATTENDANT RPTED IT WAS CAUSING HIM AND A COUPLE OF PAX IN THE AREA TO FEEL SICK. AS A PRECAUTION; I ELECTED TO RETURN TO THE ARPT. DUE TO NON RADAR AND UNCERTAINTY OF PROB; I ELECTED TO DECLARE AN EMER TO INSURE PRIORITY HANDLING BACK TO POS. AN UNEVENTFUL LNDG WAS MADE. THE ACFT WAS INSPECTED; AND RETURNED TO SVC. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE CAPT COULD NOT EXPLAIN WHAT ACTIONS; IF ANY; THAT MAINT HAD TAKEN TO SOLVE THIS PROB. HE STATED THAT THE 2 FLT ATTENDANTS HAD RPTED THE AROMA AS AKIN TO AN 'ELECTRICAL ODOR' SO THE PIC FELT HE HAD TO GO BACK AND LAND. HE FURTHER STATED THAT SOMETIMES THE B757/767 PRODUCES AN AROMA PARALLEL TO A SOUR SMELL; A MOISTURE LIKE SMELL. MAINT INSPECTED THE REAR SET OF RECIRCULATION FANS NEAR THE MID GALLEY AREA AND HAD THE CREW DO A RUN-UP PRIOR TO THE SUBSEQUENT TKOF TO CHK FOR SMELLS. NOTHING WAS RPTED BY THE FLT ATTENDANTS. FLT ATTENDANTS DID NOT FEEL ILL ON THE SECOND TRY.