Maggots on a plane!!!
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Ghana Airways planes used to arrive in the US with cargo containers infested with maggots because the passengers would carry fresh meat in their baggage
and Ghana Airways would often leave containers behind when they didn't have room. Was talking to an agriculture guy one night who told me that the maggots
are actually the delicacy and the fresh meat is there to feed them.
and Ghana Airways would often leave containers behind when they didn't have room. Was talking to an agriculture guy one night who told me that the maggots
are actually the delicacy and the fresh meat is there to feed them.
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From the BBC ....
https://news.sky.com/story/maggots-r...-turn-13071584
https://news.sky.com/story/maggots-r...-turn-13071584
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Well that changes everything, and proves that one must know one's market and customers: "Meat Free Fresh Maggot Meal Optional Upgrades Now Also Available for Select Class Members On Certain Flights". Thanks Peter!
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Not sure why you think it's the airline's fault when a brain-dead passenger brings a rotten fish on-board as their carry-on?
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Counter staff? They may have dropped off their luggage at a self-service drop-off point and not seen any counter staff until boarding. The security check would have looked at their carry-on bag, but at Schiphol the bag stays closed and is only scanned unless something fishy shows up on the screen. I guess rotting fish doesn't look suspicious to the security staff and does not warrant a hand search.
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In the early 1960s, flew back from Kenya to Heathrow, via Khartoum I seem to recall. I was with my nature-freak loving younger brother.
On the way into London, he started complaining about something he'd left on the plane. It was a small boiled-sweets tin, he said, and he'd left it in the overhead compartment. He wanted to go back to the airport and get it. Must have been something really precious, I thought.
"What was in it?" I asked.
"My live tick collection", he replied.
On the way into London, he started complaining about something he'd left on the plane. It was a small boiled-sweets tin, he said, and he'd left it in the overhead compartment. He wanted to go back to the airport and get it. Must have been something really precious, I thought.
"What was in it?" I asked.
"My live tick collection", he replied.
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In the early 1960s, flew back from Kenya to Heathrow, via Khartoum I seem to recall. I was with my nature-freak loving younger brother.
On the way into London, he started complaining about something he'd left on the plane. It was a small boiled-sweets tin, he said, and he'd left it in the overhead compartment. He wanted to go back to the airport and get it. Must have been something really precious, I thought.
"What was in it?" I asked.
"My live tick collection", he replied.
On the way into London, he started complaining about something he'd left on the plane. It was a small boiled-sweets tin, he said, and he'd left it in the overhead compartment. He wanted to go back to the airport and get it. Must have been something really precious, I thought.
"What was in it?" I asked.
"My live tick collection", he replied.
There are many legends which allege to account for its arrival, the most colourful being that a student from Bryanston School came back from a holiday in South America with one of the flies in a jam jar and left it in the science laboratory, where a cleaning lady knocked the jar onto the floor, breaking it and releasing the fly.
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During my time at Gatwick I had the pleasure (?) of managing the outbound baggage for the Med-View flight to Lagos. A complete horror story of a flight using a knackered 747-400 (TF-AMV) from Air Atlanta Icelandic. Every flight rammed - 20 AKEs (LD3s) and every bag 35+ kgs. Most over 40, record was 49kgs. And the bags absolutely stank and some were oozing what must have been frozen fish juice that was thawing. Disgusting, I'd get home from work and all uniform had to be washed at least twice to remove the last traces of smell. One particular night, for tech reasons 3 bins didn't make it onboard - so those bins were moved to the "Rush Unit" to be re-flighted for the next flight, 3 days later.
By the next night, there were maggots everywhere and the smell beyond anything I've smelled before or since. I was off for a few days after that, but I am led to believe that the 3 bins mysteriously vanished up to LHR for an earlier flight. Lucky them. So many more horror stories from the Med-View days...glad I didn't live in Charlwood.
By the next night, there were maggots everywhere and the smell beyond anything I've smelled before or since. I was off for a few days after that, but I am led to believe that the 3 bins mysteriously vanished up to LHR for an earlier flight. Lucky them. So many more horror stories from the Med-View days...glad I didn't live in Charlwood.