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.

  • mrmule
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    851 year ago

    How the F did that get through security?

    • @Mamertine
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      271 year ago

      It wasn’t a weapon.

      They aren’t paid to find rotting fish.

        • rustydomino
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          461 year ago

          Yeah but Customs is at point of entry whereas Security is at point of departure. So Security would not have caught contraband rotten fish.

        • @ripcord
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          161 year ago

          Why would US customs and border security be involved here…?

            • @ripcord
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              1 year ago

              I mean, it was kind of rhetorical. They wouldn’t be involved. But yeah.

        • Brokkr
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          121 year ago

          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.

          • @killeronthecorner
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            51 year ago

            Woah, where does the US have preclearance? I thought it was nonexistent

            • vortic
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              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.

              • @[email protected]
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                51 year ago

                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.

                • vortic
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                  21 year ago

                  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.

            • @[email protected]
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              51 year ago

              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.

          • teft
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            11 year ago

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        • @derf82
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          91 year ago

          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.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        81 year ago

        They aren’t great at finding weapons, either.

      • @SkyezOpen
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        31 year ago

        They aren’t paid to do shit except make people feel safe.

    • @slaacaa
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      131 year ago

      Security theatre