‘Meals Stored In Faulty Equipment’: American Airlines Catering Scandal Raises Food Safety Fears

American Airlines flight 203 from Amsterdam to Philadelphia took off after loading up on catering for the flight – only the frozen pasta wasn’t going to stay frozen, because the chiller was marked as inoperative and that it should be removed from service. That’s where they stored the pasta, from Amsterdam of all places – the airport Delta was flying to last summer when they poisoned passengers with an inflight meal, forcing a diversion.

The Delta maggot flight was also an Amsterdam flight, by the way. I reached out to American Airlines for comment, and will update if they respond.

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  1. Food poisoning is no joke. If they didn’t fix this, the result is likely personal ‘explosive decompression’ (from both ends, if you know what I mean). With 200 passengers experiencing that all around the same time, trapped in a metal (sorry, Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic) tube, rocketing along at 600mph, 36,000 feet above an ocean, there simply are not enough lavatories on any aircraft. It’d be that scene from Family Guy where they all drink the ipecac (‘Who wants chowdah?’). We seriously do not pay the cleaning crews enough.

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