Delta Flight Turns Back When Coach Passengers Were Showered With Maggots From The Overhead Bin – View from the Wing

Delta Flight Turns Back When Coach Passengers Were Showered With Maggots From The Overhead Bin

by Gary Leff on February 14, 2024

Tuesday’s Delta flight 133 from Amsterdam to Detroit was forced to turn around an hour into the trip when maggots fell from an overhead bin onto passengers seated in economy.

Apparently a suitcase in the overhead bin contained rotten fish. It opened, and maggots spilled out. The fish was only wrapped in a plastic bag from a grocery store in the customer’s rollaboard. It wasn’t even packed in ice.

A passenger on the aircraft reports that those were were delayed away from home were provided with a hotel room for the night and a $30 meal voucher. Customers were given 8,000 SkyMiles, which is often about one-tenth the cost of a domestic flight. You need to bathe in maggots on Delta 10 times to earn a free trip. The incident is presumably exempt from EU261 compensation.

The Fish In Amsterdam Is So Good You Want To Take Some Home

According to one passenger,

My family and I were in the row directly in front of the maggots. The lady right behind us told the flight attendants the maggots were falling on her head. Ugh. I turned around and they were wiggling around on the seat They moved us further in front though. One of our carryon 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. So. Assuming some kind of consequences but unclear what. Also apparently it was wrapped in newspaper. Absolutely gross.

This dude literally messed up the travel situations of hundreds of people At this exact moment, we have 5 suitcases that didn’t make it and are still chilling in Amsterdam. Thanks dude.

Another passenger shared,

I was in the row where the maggots were falling and alerted the staff to it alongside the lady on the opposite end of the row. I exited the plane at the same time as the culprit and he was on the same bus with me to the airport afterward. He was seated separately for a while at the service area we were all directed to, but at least he wasn’t detained on the plane itself.

My first thought was that since it was a Delta flight, they must have been premium maggots. Then it occurred to me that the maggots fell down on the heads of economy passengers. Just another way for Delta to get customers to buy up to premium products.

The aircraft was cleaned, and the suitcase holding the fish (and maggots) was burned.

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