Flight diverted after passenger finds mouse in meal

24 pointsposted 3 hours ago
by perihelions
(bbc.com)

8 Comments

mikestew

2 hours ago

We have established procedures for such situations…

Buried somewhere on the Scandinavian Airlines internal Sharepoint site is a MS Word document written by someone who thought it would never again see the light of day.

pavel_lishin

2 hours ago

> "This is something that happens extremely rarely," Mr Schmidt said.

Well, the front fell off in this case by all means, but it’s very unusual.

OutOfHere

an hour ago

What's not going to be unusual is that there likely are 10x more mice to be found at the food packaging facility. There is no way that such a problem develops without humans and food inspectors knowing about it with sufficient warning. Someone has been cutting corners and not doing their job.

bee_rider

2 hours ago

Huh.

I guess generally you have to be somewhat careful about spreading animals from one location to another. Never know what invasive species or diseases you might spread.

But… I saw in the documentary “Fivel goes west” that we’ve already spread mice everywhere. And they aren’t all that dangerous, right? Probably would have just gone for it…

jey

2 hours ago

From the article:

> Airlines usually have strict restrictions involving rodents on board planes in order to prevent electrical wiring being chewed through.

nickpinkston

2 hours ago

More protein than they usually give you...

For real though, we'd all be surprised by the amount of gross stuff going on throughout the ag & food system.

At least when I buy fresh brussel sprouts, I can see the holes/larvae in the bad ones.

user

2 hours ago

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