Delta flight turns back after maggots fall on passengers from overhead bin
Unhappiness with air travel took a new turn when maggots rained down on passengers on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, on Tuesday.
A passenger reportedly brought rotten fish on to the plane in a carry-on bag, and placed it in an overhead bin, before the maggots broke free and rained on to passengers seated below, the Independent reported.
Philip Schotte, a Netherlands native who lives in Iowa, told local news Fox 2 that he saw at least a dozen maggots falling on a woman mid-flight.
“I don’t really know what was going through my mind. I was trying to process it – disgust is one thing of course,” Schotte told the outlet. “We had to wait there for help to actually come.”
Schotte recalled that the flight attendants tracked the maggots to a passenger’s bag in the overhead compartments and found a fish wrapped in a newspaper. After the man it belonged to claimed it, Schotte said flight attendants took it away and the pilot announced that the flight would be returning to the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam.
In a statement given to Fox 2, Delta apologized to its passengers: “Their trip was interrupted due to an improperly packed carry-on bag. The aircraft returned to the gate and passengers were placed on the next available flight. The aircraft was removed from service for cleaning.”
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Strong high-altitude winds over the Mid-Atlantic sped up sky traffic on Saturday night, getting passengers on at least two commercial planes to their destinations early, after both aircraft hit supersonic speeds topping 800 mph.
Winds at cruising altitude peaked at about 265 mph, according to the Washington, D.C., area National Weather Service office — the second-highest wind speed logged in the region since recordings began in 1948. The highest-ever wind speed recorded in the area at a similar altitude was 267 mph on Dec. 6, 2002.
"For those flying eastbound in this jet, there will be quite a tail wind," the NWS warned in a tweet.
Sure enough, that tailwind helped cut down the flight time for passengers on a Virgin Atlantic flight from D.C. to London by 45 minutes, according to the tracker FlightAware.
The Boeing 787 reached a maximum ground speed of 802 mph, surpassing the speed of sound (767 mph). But, as The Washington Post explained, the plane didn't actually break the sound barrier.
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Stupid, stupid, stupid journalists.AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:05 pm https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/12323250 ... ver-800-mp
Strong high-altitude winds over the Mid-Atlantic sped up sky traffic on Saturday night, getting passengers on at least two commercial planes to their destinations early, after both aircraft hit supersonic speeds topping 800 mph.
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The Boeing 787 reached a maximum ground speed of 802 mph, surpassing the speed of sound (767 mph). But, as The Washington Post explained, the plane didn't actually break the sound barrier.
That's not how supersonic works.
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"Although its ground speed — a measure that combines the plane's actual speed and the additional push from the wind — was greater than the speed of sound, it was still moving through the surrounding air at its ordinary cruise speed. It just so happened that the surrounding air was moving unusually fast," the Post reported.
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In a former life I made a single US business trip to the US. On Christmas eve my flight from Boston to Zurich (the one in Switzerland) arrived one hour earlier than scheduled due to the jet stream, the plane a venerable DC-8.AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:05 pm https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/12323250 ... ver-800-mp
Sure enough, that tailwind helped cut down the flight time for passengers on a Virgin Atlantic flight from D.C. to London by 45 minutes, according to the tracker FlightAware.
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My first Thought was the old twilight zone episode. Had to google it.
"The Odyssey of Flight 33" is episode 54 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, the 18th episode of the second season. An unlikely break of the time barrier finds a commercial airliner sent back into the prehistoric age and then to New York City of 1939.
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Great episode! Going back to rewatch again again now!Reddog wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:22 pm My first Thought was the old twilight zone episode. Had to google it.
"The Odyssey of Flight 33" is episode 54 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, the 18th episode of the second season. An unlikely break of the time barrier finds a commercial airliner sent back into the prehistoric age and then to New York City of 1939.
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My favorite TZ episode was the one where Captain Kirk saw a baby Klingon on the wing.Reddog wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:22 pm My first Thought was the old twilight zone episode. Had to google it.
"The Odyssey of Flight 33" is episode 54 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, the 18th episode of the second season. An unlikely break of the time barrier finds a commercial airliner sent back into the prehistoric age and then to New York City of 1939.
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That episode traumatized me. I still find it difficult to put my fingers on the backside of a shade to pull it down over a window because something may be lurking behind that window where my fingers are out of my sight. Seriously!
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Extended tower/ground/atc from that United 777 that dropped a wheel on takeoff..
"It's still bouncing several hundred feet in the air"
"It's still bouncing several hundred feet in the air"
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Interesting, I wondered why that door opened:
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‘They thought I was a child’: US airline repeatedly registers 101-year-old as baby
Airport staff surprised by arrival of centenarian instead of infant after American Airlines booking system errors
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Sun 28 Apr 2024 17.16 CEST
A 101-year-old woman has been regularly mistaken for an infant because an airline’s booking system was unable to compute her date of birth.
The woman, named only as Patricia, was born in 1922, but the American Airlines system apparently does not recognise that year, defaulting instead to 2022, the BBC reported.
The centenarian was left on one occasion without her reserved wheelchair at a terminal because airport staff had expected a baby instead.
Check-in staff and cabin crew were repeatedly surprised and expected the passenger to be carried on.
“It was funny that they thought I was only a little child and I’m an old lady,” said Patricia, a former nurse, who was travelling with her daughter Kris.
“My daughter made the reservation online for the ticket and the computer at the airport thought my birth date was 2022 and not 1922,” she told the BBC cyber correspondent, Joe Tidy, who witnessed the latest mix-up on a flight between Chicago and Marquette, Michigan, on which the reporter was also travelling.
“The same thing happened last year and they were also expecting a child and not me.” This was despite her being booked as an adult ticket, not a child’s.
Patricia said she flew every year to visit family but that there had been confusion since she turned 100, despite the fact she travelled solo until the age of 97, when she required help from family members owing to trouble with her eyesight.
She hoped the airline would soon be able to compute her real age, adding: “I would like them to fix the computer as my poor daughter had to carry all our luggage and apparel almost a mile from one gate to the other.” The BBC said American Airlines had not responded to a request for comment.
Referring to a previous mix-up, Patricia and her daughter had to wait inside the plane as others disembarked, because a wheelchair had not been arranged for her.
Despite this, she was said to be looking forward to her next flight in the autumn, by which time she will be 102.
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Ted Cruz Wants Airlines to Keep Your Cash When They Cancel Your Flight
Cruz and three other congressional lawmakers offered legislation that could undermine the Biden administration's new airline refund rule
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Cruz and three other congressional lawmakers offered legislation that could undermine the Biden administration's new airline refund rule
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Yeah, now that we can grow diamonds in a laboratory, how long will it take to get industrial quantities and start building, for example, diamond aircraft? Much lighter and stronger than steel or whatever alloys they use now. Or is carbon fiber the answer?
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Carbon fiber is already used, most of the 787 is made of various composite materials....
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Ah, I did not know that. Thank you.
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But my question about lab-grown diamonds remains. At some point in the near future, we're going to be able to create real, actual diamonds on a massive scale, and they are insisting that lab-grown is chemically and otherwise identical to real diamonds. Carbon is cheap and widely available. Before you know it, the Cullinan diamond (biggest in the world) will be worth about 15 cents. We'll be able to manufacture anything we need out of diamond. I think it's exciting as hell, and every time anyone mentions diamonds or i read something that mentions diamonds, I immediately start thinking about how diamond manufacturing is going to change the world.
But maybe not airplanes. I'll make this off-topic.
But maybe not airplanes. I'll make this off-topic.
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Diamonds are cheap to mine. The days of them being difficult to extract and hence ultra-expensive are long, long gone.
It's the De Beers cartel that keeps prices artificially high, bullying or buying out anybody selling diamonds at their true value, restricting global supply, and marketing to ensure diamonds are (incorrectly) perceived as a desirable premium product.
At least that's my understanding … and I am aware that it reads like an antisemitic conspiracy theory, but it's just red-blooded market manipulating capitalism. If I'm wrong, please correct!
It's the De Beers cartel that keeps prices artificially high, bullying or buying out anybody selling diamonds at their true value, restricting global supply, and marketing to ensure diamonds are (incorrectly) perceived as a desirable premium product.
At least that's my understanding … and I am aware that it reads like an antisemitic conspiracy theory, but it's just red-blooded market manipulating capitalism. If I'm wrong, please correct!
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Diamond isn't a very good construction material, though. It may be hard, but it is also brittle. It's like building with glass that can't be easily cut or scratched.
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De Beers started the nonsense of "a diamond is forever." They created an artificial demand. Anymore you can buy a high quality manufactured diamond for far less than the "real thing." Spending $5000 doesn't prove that you love someone. It proves that you are foolish.Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 3:16 pm Diamonds are cheap to mine. The days of them being difficult to extract and hence ultra-expensive are long, long gone.
It's the De Beers cartel that keeps prices artificially high, bullying or buying out anybody selling diamonds at their true value, restricting global supply, and marketing to ensure diamonds are (incorrectly) perceived as a desirable premium product.
At least that's my understanding … and I am aware that it reads like an antisemitic conspiracy theory, but it's just red-blooded market manipulating capitalism. If I'm wrong, please correct!
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Yeah, the diamond market is highly rigged. Diamonds are fairly common, found nearly all over the world, including the USA. It was a massive marketing job done by De Beers, aided by Hollywood.
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That diamond engagement / wedding ring stuff seems to be a fairly local US phaenomen.
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Also, though, jewelry grade diamonds are not so plentiful, and not sought after by miners.
Industrial diamonds are where the REAL market is, and they are EASY to mine with explosives.
The Argyl mines in Australia almost consider jewelry grade diamonds a nuisance. They can't pass them up of course, but dealing with them just slow down the efficiency of their system.
Industrial diamonds are where the REAL market is, and they are EASY to mine with explosives.
The Argyl mines in Australia almost consider jewelry grade diamonds a nuisance. They can't pass them up of course, but dealing with them just slow down the efficiency of their system.
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