'ABSOLUTELY GROSS': Maggots leaking from overhead compartment fall on flight passenger
The flight to Detroit from Amsterdam was forced to turn back
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A flight heading to Detroit from Amsterdam was forced to turn back after maggots fell from the overhead cabin onto an unsuspecting passenger.
Baggage containing rotting fish apparently broke open and the critters rained down during the Delta flight on Tuesday, according to a Reddit post.
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People in the affected area were moved away from the disgusting scene as the plane turned around one hour into the flight and headed back to Schiphol airport.
One man said he witnessed the maggots falling on a woman sitting across the aisle from him.
“She was freaking out,” Philip Schotte, who lives in Iowa but is from the Netherlands, told Fox affiliate WJBK in Detroit. “She was just trying to kind of fight off these maggots.”
Schotte said he counted at least a dozen wiggling critters that dropped from the baggage. He initially thought it was a prank.
“I don’t really know what was going through my mind,” Schotte said. “I was trying to process it – disgust is one thing of course. We had to wait there for help to actually come.”
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Another passenger said their family was sitting in the row directly in front of where the maggots fell.
“The lady right behind us told the flight attendants the maggots were falling on her head,” a traveller named Kelce told Britain’s Daily Mail. “I turned around and they were wiggling around on the seat.
“They moved us further in front, though. One of our carry-on bags was right nearby the disgusting one so at the end of the flight when I went to get it after checking it over thoroughly, the passenger in question was still sitting there and didn’t exit the plane.”
After the plane returned to Amsterdam, the flight crew identified the owner of the offending baggage and detained them, the passenger said.
“Some kind of consequences but unclear what. Also apparently it was wrapped in newspaper. Absolutely gross.”
The overhead cabin and seats in the area were thoroughly cleaned and the rotting carry-on was placed in a bag to be incinerated.
The passenger added the airline gave travellers 8,000 air miles, hotel room compensation and a $30 meal ticket if they were delayed overnight.
Delta policy allows for food to be brought on flights, but only if it is wrapped properly and isn’t dangerous to transport.
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