Passengers aboard a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit got a surprising, and disgusting, announcement from the pilot an hour into their flight — they’d be turning around due to maggots falling from a bag in an overhead bin, showering a passenger in the process.
Maggots — the larvae of flies — were found falling from a bag carrying an apparently rotten fish on Delta flight 133 Tuesday, a passenger said. Maggots, which are small and worm-like, are typically found in decaying organic matter.
Passenger Philip Schotte, who is Dutch and lives in Iowa, said he saw a maggot fall on a woman at the end of his row, and saw several more fall around her seat.
“I noticed the lady on the other end was doing something on the empty chair next to her, but I couldn’t quite see,” he told NBC News Friday. “I kind of peeked over again and I saw that there were a couple of maggots on the chair that she was trying to kind of contain and stop from falling off the chair. As soon as she noticed that I noticed, she explained that they were falling from the overhead storage.”
“I could see she was freaked out. She was also composed, like she wasn’t like screaming or yelling or anything, but I could tell she was freaking out internally. Especially when I could see one actually fall on her. She immediately flinched and made sure that this maggot was off of her clothes,” he recalled.
He and the woman called for a flight attendant, but had to wait for the take off process to finish. Once they did, the flight attendants opened the storage and several more maggots fell out, Schotte said.
He ended up moving to a new seat five rows back and the woman who was getting rained on by the maggots also moved.
When the flight attendants identified the bag the maggots were coming from, a male passenger claimed it as his, and it was opened.
“When the bag was opened, everyone that was still sitting around that area immediately pinched their nose, because there was clearly a bad smell…
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