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Most disgusting reason for plane to return to gate: Maggots found on US Airways flightNominee

July 1st, 2010 by Doug Lansky
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We are used to overstuffed luggage falling from overhead compartments, but maggots? They fell from the overhead bin due to a spoiled container of meat (left behind by a passenger on the previous flight, according to US Airways).  As the plane was taxiing, passenger Donna Adamo told AP,  “I heard the word ‘maggot’ and that kind of got everybody creeped out. 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.”

At the gate, the plane was cleaned and fumigated before the passengers were brought back on board.

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Least Urgent Diverted FlightNominee

July 21st, 2009 by Doug Lansky
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Okay, so some 50-year-old guy decides to “disrobe while sitting in his seat in the back of the aircraft” on a US Airways flight. For that the cross-country flight gets diverted to Albuquerque?

So the pilot delays all the passengers and wastes all the extra fuel because of seated nudity at the back of the plane? Even if he was prancing up and down the aisle and singing I’m a Little Tea Cup, it hardly seems worthy of an emergency landing. Running out of coffee is a far more worthy cause for diverting a flight.

See the AP story here.

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