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As the Beirut-based journalist narrated on his Twitter account, one hour into his transatlantic flight he kept smelling “something gross” but couldn’t figure out what it was.
Battah said that, when he looked down, he noticed a big stain that ran across a whole carpet of seats, which was wet when he touched it. He claimed when he called the attention of a flight attendant, he was just given a shrug and some wipes. “In my broken French, I told her it smelled like smeared (sh*t)".
“I’ve seen a few things in my life, but the horrific blood-soaked carpet on my Air France plane was on another level!” he said, noting that the wipes came up “blood red” when he tried to clean up the mess.
Battah’s backpack, which was placed under a seat, also had its straps soaked in blood. He then “got on his hands and knees” and proceeded to clean for half an hour.
The flight attendants gave him more wipes and gloves, and casually mentioned that a passenger on the previous flight had experienced a hemorrhage. “The Air France staff crowded around, shocked because they claimed the cleaning crew had removed the seats after the sick passenger incident, but apparently not cleaned the floor,” Battah said.
According to Battah, one of the cabin crew members said that a passenger on the previous flight had internal bleeding and infection.
Alarmed, Battah tagged France’s Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) and The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, asking if he and other passengers could have been exposed to disease due to the previous flight’s passenger.
He also tagged Air France and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to advise whether he and other passengers might have been exposed to hazardous medical and biological waste.
The flight’s chief attendant also told him that the incident involving the sick passenger occurred on June 29, 2023 on a flight from Paris to Boston, meaning that the aircraft had flown another flight prior to Battah’s..
Battah said that the airline eventually offered him, and his traveling companions bottled water and placed two blankets between them and the blood stain for the remainder of the flight, which took over seven more hours. “Also, they threw in an extra pack of wipes. ‘Taking Elegance to New Heights’ according to their bio,” Battah said, referring to Air France’s latest slogan.
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