'Absolutely gross' maggots raining on passengers force flight to make U-turn

Philo@discuss.online to World News@lemmy.world – 218 points –
'Absolutely gross' maggots raining on passengers force flight to make U-turn
news.sky.com
47

Who the fuck packs a rotting fish into a carry-on bag??

And how the fuck does the rotting fish bag get through security?

It was an emotional support rotting fish carcass.

DID YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK ME WHAT MY ROTTING FISH CARCASS IS FOR UNDER THE ADA. I'M SUING YOU

Because security is more concerned with finding weapons and drugs. Customs/Borders Enforcement is the group tasked with finding prohibited plants and animals, and they don’t usually start looking for those things until you get to the destination country.

I had a block of cheese one time, they went crazy about it. X-rayed it a bunch. They really didn't like that cheese.

That was probably because of the density of the cheese. I had the same thing happen to me with a bag of gnocchi once. They really thought it was something illicit because they had a big armed security guy on either side of me while they had me open it, and they looked really disappointed to find out what it really was.

I got stopped with a Panettone once. Thankfully this was in EWR so the Italian-American gate agent understood why I'd be snuggling one to the west coast.

was it brunost by any chance?

It was a 5lb block of cheddar from UW Provisions, in Madison Wisconsin. Which, in their defense, is a very large block of cheese.

In the US, they can't stop you from bringing a fish through, even if it's rotting. The airline can deny you boarding, if they even know about it ahead of time, but TSA isn't in charge of any of that.

I see now this is from AMS to DET, I'm not familiar with Amsterdam's security or rules, so there is a decent chance my first paragraph is incorrect in this situation.

Might have been sealed up airtight and they said it was smoked fish or something. Still, to have maggots, it's almost impossible that it didn't come through unless vacuum sealed. Yeah, that's how I should, I mean they could have done it.

Some cheese has maggots by design.

“Maggots by Design” is a good name for a metal band . Pink logo

It's not a liquid. I don't see the problem.

I dunno, depends on how long it's been rotting...

I just don't want to fly anymore.

Who can afford it these days? Groceries alone are over $200 a trip...

You don't need to fly to the grocery shop too, Taylor, for fucksake

FYI, lots of people have different grocery needs so a broad statement like "grocery trips are $N these days" is pretty meaningless without the context of your purchases or needs.

A better example might be "my grocery bills are up 50% this year with no changes to what I buy!!"

My grocery budget has changed the last few years, but from $65 average to now $85 average. That said the supplemental food I buy (occasional orders out, etc) has risen significantly more, probably upwards of +60% at times.

I was stuck on a runway in very humid weather. They finally turned the AC on after a couple hours and we started to get condensation dripping on us from the, I'm guessing, never cleaned ceiling.

And that's why I always fly in a thin hoodie now.

How? Why?

Article says they were coming from a carry-on bag. Someone was pulling a prank or was having a mental break, I guess.

3 more...

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The "absolutely gross" situation saw the Delta flight forced to make a U-turn about an hour into the nine-hour trip from Amsterdam to Detroit.

Passengers reported the back of the plane was left teeming with the larvae that it later emerged were emanating from a rotten fish.

The passenger added that one of their carry-on bags was next to the "disgusting" one, and that the suspected culprit was still seated and did not exit the plane at the end of the flight.

"They were all sitting around in the crew area laughing and talking when we had been on the plane for close to three hours with not even water offered," Kelsey said.

Delta - described as a "leader in domestic and international travel" on its website - confirmed rotten fish and maggots were in the bag and apologised to the passengers.

"We apologise to the customers of Flight 133 AMS-DTW as their trip was interrupted due to an improperly packed carry-on bag," the airline told Sky News.


The original article contains 422 words, the summary contains 168 words. Saved 60%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!