Van Heerden and her family, from Pretoria, South Africa
were on board the 09:15am Air Mauritius flight MK851
headed for OR Tambo on Thursday morning when she made
the nauseating discovery.
The Van Heerden's had just enjoyed a 9-day Sugar Bay
beach break on the island of Mauritius but unfortunately it
was not about to end well.
"It was really upsetting for me, as I had eaten half of my
meal already," said Van Heerden. "I believe they came
from the mushrooms, I looked down, asking myself, 'What
is this? I took a photo with my iPad and enlarged it. That's
when I saw it was a maggot and said 'no this can’t be?'."
"Maggots!?” After bringing it to the flight attendants
attention, Van Heerden said he explained it might be some
“kind of spice”. "He tried to cut it in front of me and then
agreed that it definitely was not a spice. It was a maggot.
I didn’t even think to get the flight attendants name, as I
was too busy concentrating on not throwing up."
According to Van Heerden, the male flight attendant was
very apologetic, saying how sorry he was when he took the
meal away. But it was the attitude of a female flight
attendant that disappointed Van Heerden the most. "She
did not apologise, she only brought me a form and said she
would bring the issue to the attention of the catering
company. They didn’t even bring me water or offer me Eno
even though I was clearly feeling very ill and even told
them I was feeling sick. Instead, I had to take two nausea
tablets from a lady who was sitting two rows down from
me," Van Heerden said.
Air Mauritius is investigating the matter and will respond
with comment as soon as possible.
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