Flight diverted after passenger finds mouse in meal

27 pointsposted 9 months ago
by perihelions

12 Comments

mikestew

9 months 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

9 months 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

9 months 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

9 months 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

9 months ago

From the article:

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

pavel_lishin

9 months ago

Surely someone's done studies showing exactly how many wires a mouse could chew through per flight-minute. I want to see that time/risk curve!

nickpinkston

9 months 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.

kyleee

9 months ago

Which to me is somewhat heartening because it makes me think that maybe the veg hasn’t been absolutely soaked in poisons while being grown.

nickpinkston

9 months ago

Yea, though when the larvae are dead, I think "Were these fumigated?" haha.

At least we can wash most of that off.

user

9 months ago

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