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.
Actually they are paid for that. One of the most important jobs of US Customs is agricultural protections and checks and I would assume the same is true for other countries. No one wants invasive species if they can help it.
https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/protecting-agriculture
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.
Yeah but Customs is at point of entry whereas Security is at point of departure. So Security would not have caught contraband rotten fish.
Yeah because the smell wouldn’t give that away…that’s where I’m the most confused.
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Why would US customs and border security be involved here…?
I love it when people are downvoted for asking legitimate questions.
I mean, it was kind of rhetorical. They wouldn’t be involved. But yeah.
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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Woah, where does the US have preclearance? I thought it was nonexistent
Dublin, Ireland recently added US Pre-clearance in the past couple of years.
They’ve had it in Dublin since 2011.
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.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/preclearance
I’m surprised that neither the UK or Mexico are on the list.
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.
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.