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Woman Who Lost Her Global Entry Over an Apple Delta Gave Her Fought Back and Won

veganquesohead
Jun 07 2018

When entering the U.S. you need to answer customers questions correctly. If you have any food with you, say so, because if you’re chosen for secondary screening and caught you could be fined — and lose Global Entry privileges if you have them. I’ve warned readers about this before, it’s one of the ways people are losing Global Entry.

Six weeks ago I wrote about Crystal Tadlock taking an apple handed out as a snack on her Delta flight and sticking it in her carry on bag. She figured she’d eat it on her connecting flight to Denver.

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Doctor Says Lavatory Waste Fell From the Sky and Gave His Patient Pink Eye

poop man
Jun 06 2018

Airlines do not intentionally dump lavatory waste inflight. I do not know of any commercial aircraft that gives pilots a control mechanism to do so.

On average once a year there’s a documented instance of ‘blue ice’ — airplane lavatory waste material that leaks from the aircraft. It’s named from the blue disinfectant often used in lavatory waste systems.

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Passengers Fainted and Flight Diverted Because Man Onboard Smelled Really Bad

people on tarmac by plane
Jun 02 2018

A flight from Gran Canaria to Amsterdam on Dutch low cost carrier Transavia made an emergency landing on Tuesday. Passengers were fainting in their seats. Some vomited in the aisles. None had even eaten the fish, and the flight wasn’t especially turbulent. No one turned into a zombie.

Passengers “began to gag and become violently ill.” And it all traced to one passenger.

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