A passenger on a maggot-infested Delta flight has described the moment he laid eyes on a woman who was attacked by a nasty stowaway.
“She was freaking out,” said Philip Schott, who was on a flight Tuesday from Amsterdam to Detroit, where the virus was spreading. told Fox 2 Detroit. “She was just trying to fight off the maggots.”
When she looked across the aisle, she said she saw at least a dozen maggots roll onto the woman from an overhead bin.
Another passenger placed his baggage, which looked like carrion and stuffed with fish wrapped in newspaper, in a foul-smelling container.
“I really don’t know what was going on in my mind. I was just trying to process it — not to mention the disgust,” Schott told the outlet.
“We actually had to wait there until help arrived,” he added.
“It turned out there was rotten fish in there,” Schott, a Dutchman living in Iowa, told the magazine. “I did see everyone’s reaction when I opened the bag, and they just immediately held their noses.”
The man who appeared to have placed the foul-smelling seafood there stood up and claimed it, according to the report.
“The passenger explained that when he opened it, there was a fish inside. That was the only word I heard from far back, where I was sitting, the word ‘fish.’ ” shot told WXYZ.
“So at that point, we knew there was rotting fish in there and lots of maggots coming out of it,” he said.
The flight attendants carried the dirty cargo to the back of the plane, and the pilot told the passengers they would be returning to Amsterdam.
Schott boarded another flight back to the United States a few hours later.
“I made the right decision to turn the plane around because I was five rows back and by the time we landed, one of the maggots had come to my row,” he told the outlet. ” he said.
“I can only imagine what would have happened if I had been on that plane for another seven hours,” he added.
Delta Air Lines did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
In a statement to WXYZ, the airline said: “We apologize to the customers on AMS-DTW Flight 133 whose travels were interrupted due to improperly packed carry-on baggage.”
“The aircraft returned to the gate and passengers were placed on the next available flight. The aircraft was removed from service for cleaning,” it added.
A passenger named Kelsey tweeted about the nauseating incident in a since-deleted X post.
“So happy to find out 2 hours into my @Delta 8 hour flight to Amsterdam that there are rotting fish and maggots on board,” the user wrote, noting that the responsible passenger was later detained, according to the Daily Mail told.
Kelce said the airline offered travelers 8,000 free miles, hotel room compensation and a $30 meal voucher in case of an overnight delay.
