A Delta Flight Was Forced To Turn Around After Maggots Fell From The Ceiling

INDEPENDENT - 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 travelers 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.

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As a Spirit man myself, I love making that claim every time something terrible happens on another airline. Spirit has been on a nice little run lately. At least by Spirit Airlines' standards. But I'm sure any day we're going to wake up to a story about a Spirit flight where the flight attendants turned into zombies and started eating the passengers. It's only a matter of time.

But for now, it's Delta Airlines who's asses are in the jackpot. Sort of. I have a hard time blaming Delta for this situation. The blame should be split up evenly between the passenger, and the airport security in Amsterdam. What type of shit show are the running out in Amsterdam? Maybe if the TSA agents weren't out all night in the red light district shooting heroin and kissing hookers, they'd have done their job and caught the rotting fish in the bottom of the suitcase.

And to the passenger. I know Amsterdam has a Dutch New Herring that's to die for (according to a Google search). But unless you bring an actual freezer onto the plane, or a literal block of dry ice, that's not going to survive the 10+ hours it will take to get your herring from the herring store to your home in Michigan. 

If you were a passenger on that flight, what you you prefer the pilot do? 

One person, named Kelce, ended up taking to X/Twitter, to comment on their experience being a passenger on the flight, writing, “really lovely to be 2 hours into an 8 hour @Delta to amsterdam and find out there is rotten fish and maggots hitching a ride with us.”

You're 2 hours into an 8 hour flight. I understand why a lot of people would want the plane to turn around and go back to Amsterdam. Maggots falling from the ceiling and rotting fish are a pretty nasty combination. But for me, the plane would have to be in danger of plummeting into the Atlantic Ocean before I'd want them to turn it around. They don't even turn planes around when people die. They just move the corpse to the back of the ship and plow forward. I can do 6 hours of rotting fish and fighting off maggots if it means I get home faster. As opposed to doing the 2 hours back, then having to deal with whatever other Delta airlines bullshit that has to happen before you can get on the next maggot-free flight. 

There should really be some sort of hatch in the back of the plane they can use to dump unwanted items out mid-flight. They could have dropped it right into the ocean. Or maybe they could just throw it out of the emergency exit. If we've learned anything from airline disasters this year it's that a plane can lose an entire door and everyone might still survive.

Luckily for the passengers, they were all handsomely rewarded with 8,000 free miles and a $30 meal ticket. That should cover about 25% of a short flight and couple drinks at the airport bar.