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Home Front: WoT
Needles found in airline food
2012-07-17
Delta Air Lines Inc. is trying to figure out how needles got into turkey sandwiches on four flights from Amsterdam to the U.S.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three Four times is enemy action.
The airline says needles were found in six sandwiches on four flights on Sunday. Delta spokeswoman Kristin Baur says one passenger on a flight to Minneapolis was injured, but the passenger declined to get medical attention.
If this is indeed 'enemy action' the needles might have been contaminated. This passenger should reconsider and see a doctor.
The sandwiches were prepared in the kitchen of a catering company in Amsterdam, and some were served to business class passengers on Delta flights. After the needles were found, passengers got pizza instead.

Delta says security for its meal production has been increased and it is using more prepackaged food while the investigation continues. The needles were found on flights to Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Seattle.
For more details, courtesy of Besoeker, see here.
Posted by:Elmemp Elmetle1651

#6  Per the Yahoo report the teen was on a flight from Amsterdam to Atlanta. His father (or mother?) found a needle on a flight from Amsterdam to Minneapolis.

Another interesting point from the Yahoo link:
"The sandwiches were served to business class passengers, crew members and government employees flying from Amsterdam to the United States."

I wonder if these government employees might have been the specific target of this 'attack.'
Posted by: Elmemp Elmetle1651   2012-07-17 14:44  

#5  For the cynical ones amongst us:

Additional needles were reported found on two other flights, one by a crew member and another by a federal air marshal.

If this is fake, it is pretty elaborate. Or someone really is putting needles in the sandwiches.
Posted by: Frozen Al   2012-07-17 14:15  

#4  Sounds like a Doper ib the Kitchen.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-07-17 12:06  

#3  
In a federal report on the incidents, it was noted that the teen was the son of a passenger aboard the flight to Minneapolis who also found a needle in his sandwich.


I read that as saying both were on the same flight. Seems a bit suspicious, but not impossible by any means.
Posted by: gorb   2012-07-17 12:02  

#2  Father and son, on separate flights to MN and Atlanta, find needles and want to save it for a lawsuit??? Wouldn't be of the unnamed religion or CAIR, would they?
Posted by: OmuluqueHapsburg5085   2012-07-17 10:25  

#1  As if we needed another reason NOT to eat airplane food. One can just about guess who might have been employed in those Dutch based American vendor kitchens. We've likely seen the last of those snacks. Eating food laced with needles and medical waste... so overrated.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-07-17 08:55  

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