United Airline From Hong Kong, joined Jan 2001, 8792 posts, RR: 17 Posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 1243 times:
Hey guys!
I suppose most airlines are very careful when dealing with food. Most airlines produce high quality (Suppose to be), hygienic as well as nice food on board. However, you can't miss it sometimes.
Has Food Poisoning ever happened on board? That would be deleterious since you can't have everyone rushing into the toilet (Just joking).
Serious, that's very dangerious. But has it happened before? What procedures are there for flight attendents to deal with this in such situation?
G-KIRAN From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2000, 736 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1196 times:
I remember a few years ago QANTAS were in trouble because some passengers came down with food posioning on a domestic flight.Apparently they were givin food that was over 1 year old.
United Airline From Hong Kong, joined Jan 2001, 8792 posts, RR: 17 Reply 3, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1191 times:
A330300 From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 172 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1181 times:
United Airline- If you *remember* they why do you ask this topic?
United Airline From Hong Kong, joined Jan 2001, 8792 posts, RR: 17 Reply 6, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 1167 times:
United Airline From Hong Kong, joined Jan 2001, 8792 posts, RR: 17 Reply 8, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 1157 times:
Oh my goodness! But anyway, food poisoning on board is very rare. So don't worry.........
Boeing747-400 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 1159 times:
Well on one SWA flight I was on, a guy apparently had some bad Chili or something before he got on and let me say, it was not too fresh in the cabin after the bad chili took affect on him. Poor guy, what an embarrasment.
Type-rated From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 4355 posts, RR: 20 Reply 10, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1150 times:
Back in the 70's when the airlines offered "No Frills" flights, you could bring your own food on board and even have the F/A heat it up for you. The very next summer there were lots of outbreaks of food poisionings on airplanes. What was happening was that people were bringing their own food on board from home and they weren't taking proper care of it and in the summer heat the food was spoiling due to lack of refrigeration. And if the F/A complied and heated the food this usually accelerated the growth of toxic bacteria. My sister was a F/A with TW at the time and she remembers the memo that came out instructing all F/A's to immediately stop heating up food that was not airline supplied. Shortly thereafter the food poisionings stopped.
Fly North Central Airlines..The route of the Northliners!
United Airline From Hong Kong, joined Jan 2001, 8792 posts, RR: 17 Reply 11, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1147 times:
Poor guy! But what happened to him? What do you mean by 'Not too Fresh in the cabin'?
but also from salmonella intoxication in one case (in the 70s, two people died I believe).
Other incidents include a gear up landing in DUS and a landing at XFW instead of HAM because the captain mixed up the airports and ended up landing on the Airbus plant´s runway which was way too short...
767-322ETOPS From United States of America, joined May 2001, 324 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 1139 times:
I personally got sick as a dog on a UA flight ORD-EWR, I think around 1988 - definitely a long time ago because the a/c was a DC-8.
There was some type of cold grilled chicken, the thought of it still makes me quesy - had to be e-coli because the symptons were BAD. I only eat airline food on extremely long flights when there isn't much of an alternative. Why risk your whole trip by getting sick on something that doesn't taste that great anyway?
United Airline From Hong Kong, joined Jan 2001, 8792 posts, RR: 17 Reply 14, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 1124 times:
Herbie99 From United States of America, joined May 2001, 49 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1113 times:
The worst case that I can think of is an incident that happened in 1980. It was a Trans Global flight between LA and Chicago with Capt. Clearance Over as the pilot. The passengers got spoiled fish. The entire flight deck crew got sick, but luckily there was a pilot aboard to land the plane in Chicago.
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