Swarm of Ants Infests Flight from Italy to Newark
Forget snakes on a plane -- on Monday, it was ants on a plane. Lots of them, apparently.
A passenger on a United Airlines flight from Venice to Newark tweeted that she and other passengers saw -- and felt -- large numbers of ants crawling on them, their seats, the windows and even in the luggage compartments.
At one point, Charlotte Burns tweeted, ants spilled out of an overhead bag as the situation quickly spiraled and the insects spread. The cabin crew apparently scrambled to contain them with limited resources.
"This is my new normal. I live here now. Me and the ants," Burns tweeted in an extensive thread on her experience.
The airline acknowledged the incident and said it was responding.
"We are concerned by the experience our customer reported on United flight 169 from Venice to Newark. We have been in contact with the crew and they have advised the ants have been isolated from a customer’s bag and the affected areas have been wiped down," A United spokesman said in a statement.
"At this time, the aircraft will continue to its final destination. We will be taking the aircraft out of service when it arrives in Newark."
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