Just when you thought air travel couldn't get any worse, maggots falling from an overhead bin on an US Airways flight out of Atlanta this week forced the plane to return to the gate.
A US Airways plane returns to the gate after maggots fall from an overhead bin.
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A container of spoiled meat stored aboard the Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C., flight apparently included some maggots along with it, creating a brief panic among passengers before the pilot turned the plane around.
Passenger Donna Adamo said she noticed some flies when she boarded the plane on Monday, and when the plane was taxiing and the woman seated behind her, Desiree Williams-Harrell, begin shout and refused to sit back down and screamed "there's one over here."
Shortly after, Adamo noticed something on her clothes.
"I thought it was a piece of lint but when I went to flick it off, it was squishy," Adamo said.
After a flight attendant opened the overhead bin with the spoiled meat -- and quickly closed it again -- the pilot announced that there was "a minor disturbance" and the plane was heading back to the gate.