Airline passenger reportedly falls ill after eating cockroach-filled omelet

By Andrea Margolis , Fox Business
Published Sep. 28, 2024, 9:09 p.m. ET

Airline passenger reportedly falls ill after eating cockroach-filled omelet.

A traveler recently called out Air India after she reportedly found a cockroach in her in-flight meal earlier this month.

Suyesha Savant, who flew from Delhi to New York on Sept. 17, wrote about her unpleasant experience on X earlier this week.

“Found a cockroach in the omelette served to me on the @airindia flight from Delhi to New York,” the mother wrote in the post on Friday. “My 2 year old finished more than half of it with me when we found this.”

“Suffered from food poisoning as a result,” she added. In the post, Savant shared pictures that appear to show a dead cockroach laying in an omelet.

The mother, who works as a journalist in India, also shared a video that she recorded on the flight where she discussed the filth she encountered on the plane.

“Even the pouches of this seat were not clean and it had waste bottles lying in it, and when I alerted the staff about it, they said it was a mistake,” the passenger said.

“But how many mistakes?” Savant added.
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The mother wrote on X that her 2-year-old child had already eaten half of the meal before the roach was discovered.

An Air India spokesperson confirmed to FOX Business that they were aware of the incident.

The employee added that the airline “works with reputed caterers who supply to leading airlines globally and have stringent SOPs [standard operating procedures] and multiple checks to ensure quality of meals served to our guests.”

“We are concerned about the experience of the customer in the said instance and have taken it up with our catering service provider to investigate it further,” the spokesman added. “We will take necessary actions to prevent any recurrence of such instances in [the] future.”

The social media post came as Air India faces scrutiny over the unclean conditions of its planes.

Last week, a passenger named Anip Patel documented his experience flying first-class from Chicago to Delhi, calling it the “worst first-class cabin I’ve ever been on.”

Patel’s video, which garnered millions of views on TikTok, shows a first-class cabin filled with hair, ripped furnishings and dirt-covered crevices.

The passenger also said that his headphones came tangled and covered in mildew.

“The entertainment system did not work the entire 15 hours,” the Chicago resident said. “Everything was broken. They literally put tape on the wall to tape that stuff down.

“It was a nightmare. I was robbed on this flight.”

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Well this should just be viewed as another exciting step on the cultural enrichment of our new shit world. Soon overflowing toilets or simple buckets will be part of our airtravel experince.

We are supposed to be celebrating eating bugs as well.
 
"I am an experienced traveler who has been on many airlines throughout my life. What I thought was odd about Air India after boarding the plane was the lack of a lavatory. I felt it must be especially well-hidden or on the other side of the plane.

It wasn't until I smelled the worst stench imaginable that I realized a man had pulled down his trousers and relieved himself in the middle of the aisle. I thought this man deranged and soon to be dealt with, until the stewardess wheeled directly over his mess and ignored him.

Soon after, an older gentleman proceeded to do the same. It was then I realized: the aisles ARE the bathrooms. This was a common theme by the end. I also found a cockroach in my curry omelet. It was more like being in a flying portapotty.

PROS: Affordable, spacious overhead compartments, authentic cultural experience

CONS: Aisle shitting, bugs in food, curry smell, sitting next to Indian people

2/5 would not recommend"
 
Scrolled down, saw Air India, explained everything without even needing to read the full thing. It's like they're trying to give you that authentic India experience before you've even got there, food poisoning before you've even touched the ground, blech.
 
So....they have the papillon omelet special in india then? Endorsed by bollywood steve mcqueen i'm sure

They really should just rename this meal the vomelet so people know what they're getting

I'd laugh my ass off if it wasn't the roach that made the passenger sick but the eggs being off. That would be peak india

Patel’s video, which garnered millions of views on TikTok, shows a first-class cabin filled with hair, ripped furnishings and dirt-covered crevices.
If thats the quality expected of first class, third class must be hanging on the sides and wings of the plane like gremlins in the twilight zone. I wonder, does additional seating open up when somebody gets sucked into a turbine?
 
There's also a video where she records her food and talks about it.

Anyone less retarded than me who can grab the video? Her twitter is @suyeshasavant

@Mao Hao Hao you should've read it more, she got food poisoned flying from New Delhi to New York. It was more of Air India giving her a souvenir.
 
Oh....god....I think you all missed the true fucking horror hidden in the article.

Even the pouches of this seat were not clean and it had waste bottles lying in it

Keep in mind how jeets like to shit using a bottle of dirty water to spritz their assholes, with some of the fecal spray further splattering into the water and onto the bottle and thus leaving the whole thing more of a biohazard than your average central african batcave, and consider given pajeet proclivities the likelihood a double digit percentile of the flight were likely using said bottles as portable shitting streets, and you have a plane objectively more dangerous to your health and infinitely more horrifying to board than United Flight 175

I'd laugh my ass off if it wasn't the roach that made the passenger sick but the eggs being off. That would be peak india
The roach actually died of food poisoning shortly after finding its way into the omelette
 
I'm sure the cockroach had all the nutrients that were lacking in the omelette.

It's my first article i chose to post and i hope every enjoys eating airplane food with three eyes open from now on
You need to post a link to the article, and an archive on an archive website (basically everything but Wayback Machine) would make it better
 
It's my first article i chose to post and i hope every enjoys eating airplane food with three eyes open from now on
As someone that works in the industry, their first problem was flying 'rona airlines.

The second issue was that it was from India to America.

That type of shit goes back to the caterer and should shut it down.

At least at the kitchen I work in, we take vermin problems very seriously.
 
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