Qantas passenger finds maggots in her airline snack
A mother discovered live maggots crawling inside a packet of airline nuts on board a Qantas flight – after she’d already begun eating them.
Victoria Cleven, 42, who was on a Los Angeles to Melbourne flight, turned on her overhead light after thinking the nuts tasted a bit strange.
It was then she saw maggots wriggling out of the packet.
The mother-of-two, from Australia, told Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper: "I couldn’t talk. I was nearly throwing up. I was beside myself."
Her 15-year-old son then checked another two packets of the Australian made ‘trail mix’ they had got on the plane and found they contained maggots as well.
When she complained to Qantas, Mrs Cleven says she was offered a flight refund but claims the money she was offered eventually amounted to AUD$400 – approximately £250- when the total cost of her flight was more than £1,000.
A spokesman for the airline says the incident last week is being investigated.
The Sydney Biscuit Company, which makes the snack, told the Herald Sun newspaper that moths could have got into the packets when they were stored at a warehouse.
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