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?
It wasn’t a weapon.
They aren’t paid to find rotting fish.
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.
Yeah because the smell wouldn’t give that away…that’s where I’m the most confused.
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Why would US customs and border security be involved here…?
I love it when people are downvoted for asking legitimate questions.
I mean, it was kind of rhetorical. They wouldn’t be involved. But yeah.
When was US Customs to find this on a flight departing mainland Europe? They don’t see anything until it lands in the US.
There are a few airports in Canada and Ireland that have pre clearance, but that’s it.
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.
Woah, where does the US have preclearance? I thought it was nonexistent
Today, CBP has more than 600 officers and agriculture specialists stationed at 15 Preclearance locations in 6 countries: Dublin and Shannon in Ireland; Aruba; Bermuda; Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates; Nassau in the Bahamas; and Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria, and Winnipeg in Canada.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/preclearance
I’m surprised that neither the UK or Mexico are on the list.
Legend has it the UK (I think Manchester) was going to sign up to it but the US insisted their officers have guns, which the UK authorities didn’t agree with.
That makes a lot of sense. You’d think the US agents could just not use guns in the UK, but I can definitely see the US insisting on guns.
When I fly to the US from Toronto I clear US customs in Pearson Airport, before getting on the plane. If I were to sign up for a Nexus pass I’d be able to pass through US customs even faster, but I don’t travel often enough for it to be worthwhile. Not sure if either of those matches what you mean by pre-clearance.
Dublin, Ireland recently added US Pre-clearance in the past couple of years.
They’ve had it in Dublin since 2011.
They aren’t great at finding weapons, either.
They aren’t paid to do shit except make people feel safe.
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.
Security theatre
Good ol’ T$A.
Not TSA.
Just to say this passenger fucked it all up and Delta went a long way to make it right to those passengers affected.
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.
That’s not how any of that works
Which is why it was a joke on how long it takes for a fucking plane to take off.
But jokes are funny
Whooshed
They only turned around because there weren’t enough maggots to throw on all of the economy passengers.
Did you bring enough for the whole class?
Thanks for the new phobia!
New Ryanair upcharge for the maggot free flying experience.
These assholes will stop at nothing to get you to upgrade.
I hate when that happens!
Well, I knew in-flight catering was bad. But this takes the cake.
I was expecting this to be a new trend to prank airlines
🤮
New fear unlocked
It just goes to show that the TSA is just security theater.
“Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit”
TSA??
Or the equivalent.
They’re people security, not biosecurity.
