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.

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

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          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.

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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.

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                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.

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                  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.

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              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.

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          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.

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    Just to say this passenger fucked it all up and Delta went a long way to make it right to those passengers affected.

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    They only turned around because there weren’t enough maggots to throw on all of the economy passengers.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    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.

    In an interview with the Daily Mail, Kelce revealed that Delta staff had identified the owner of the rotting suitcase and detained them on the plane after the rest of the travellers left the aircraft.

    “One of our carry-on bags was right near 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.

    In a statement to The Independent regarding the maggot incident, Delta said: “We apologise to the customers of Flight 133 AMS-DTW as their trip was interrupted due to an improperly packed carry-on bag.

    Speaking to Yahoo News Australia, Lisa Archbold detailed her upsetting interaction with an airline crew member before her flight from Salt Lake City to San Francisco.

    On 22 January, the self-employed DJ was leaving Utah’s Sundance Film Festival and heading back home to the Bay Area.


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