A Delta flight was recently forced to turn around an hour after take-off when maggots fell from the overhead compartment onto passengers sitting in the economy seats.
The flight on Tuesday 13 February was transporting travellers from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, when a passenger’s suitcase containing rotting fish was in the overhead bin and opened up resulting in maggots falling onto passengers and the plane turning around.
After the plane landed all passengers were instructed to de-board the aircraft and the suitcase containing the fish was placed in a bag to be destroyed. The plane itself was also deeply cleaned.
How the F did that get through security?
Actually they are paid for that. One of the most important jobs of US Customs is agricultural protections and checks and I would assume the same is true for other countries. No one wants invasive species if they can help it.
Yeah but Customs is at point of entry whereas Security is at point of departure. So Security would not have caught contraband rotten fish.
Sometimes a country’s customs screening is in a foreign country, but US customs does not have a preclearance office in Amsterdam. Countries typically don’t have screenings for people leaving the country.
95% of weapons do and they have a bunch of things designed to detect weapons in particular. They don’t exactly have a rotten fish scanner.
why the fuck is there a rotten fish 💀
They were alive earlier, X-ray killed them and then the 4 hour waiting to take off let the larva hatch.
Which is why it was a joke on how long it takes for a fucking plane to take off.
Just to say this passenger fucked it all up and Delta went a long way to make it right to those passengers affected.
They only turned around because there weren’t enough maggots to throw on all of the economy passengers.
These assholes will stop at nothing to get you to upgrade.