How did TSA miss this one?

Maggots force plane back to gate in Atlanta

By KATE BRUMBACK
Associated Press Writer


ATLANTA (AP) - Maggots falling from an overhead bin from a spoiled container of meat forced a US Airways flight to return to the gate so the bin could be cleaned.

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"Then I heard the word 'maggot' and that kind of got everybody creeped out," she said. "All of a sudden, I felt somebody flick the back of my hair and on the front of me came a maggot, which I flicked off me."

A passenger had the container in a carry-on bag and brought it on Monday's flight heading from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C., said US Airways spokesman Todd Lehmacher. The pilot announced that they were returning to the gate because of a "minor emergency on board" and the flight attendants told everyone to sit down and be calm, Adamo said.

"I felt like they were crawling all over me because it only takes one maggot to upset your world," she said. "And as they're telling us to stay calm and seated, I see a maggot looking back at me and I'm thinking, 'These are anaerobic, flesh-eating larvae that the flight attendants don't have to sit with.'"

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I was on another Delta flight backed up behind this one.

I didn't know why the delay until I saw this on Miami TV.

Useless security theatre for once a year flyers.

TSA is about keep people flying, not keeping them safe.

More people have been saved in the past few years by the incompetence of terrorists than by the competence of the TSA.

Harassing free citizens and indoctrinating said citizens into acceptance of a police state mentality.

I can just imagine how I would react, and it wouldn't be a prettysite!

It was fresh when boarding started.

I don't think the bag of meat came from inside the screened area.

Can the Hollywood production be far behind?