An airline passenger claims the meal served to her on a recent flight contained a nasty addition: a cockroach.
In a post on X on Friday, September 27, Suyesha Savant recounts a disgusting experience she had while traveling on Air India with her young child.
“Found a cockroach in the omelette served to me on the @airindia flight from Delhi to New York,” Savant wrote. “My two-year-old was more than halfway done with me when we found this.”
The mother claims that “she suffered from food poisoning because of this.”
Two images and a video accompanying the caption show the pest emerging from a piece of egg.
Air India’s X account responded to the post the same day, writing: “Dear Ms. Savant, We are very sorry to hear about your experience,” and noted that the airline would “immediately” investigate the incident.
PEOPLE reached out to the company for further comment, but did not immediately hear back.
An Air India aircraft.
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In Savant’s video, she points out that she can “see the whiskers” of the insect and states that she experienced other unsanitary conditions in the cabin.
“Even the pouches of this seat weren’t clean and there were waste bottles in it, and when I alerted the staff about it, they said it was a mistake,” she says.
This is not the first case that passengers have reported unhygienic circumstances related to in-flight dining in recent weeks.
A live mouse ‘jumped’ out of a passenger’s meal on the plane, causing the flight to be diverted
Earlier this month, a Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) passenger opened her meal and a live mouse ran out, forcing the flight to make an emergency landing.
One of the neighboring passengers on the boat, Jarle Borrestad, wrote about witnessing the furry intruder in a Facebook post.
According to the BBC, airline spokesman Oystein Schmidt told the AFP news agency that the rodent posed a “security risk” to passengers traveling from Oslo, Norway to Malaga, Spain. The plane was diverted to Copenhagen.
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Schmidt said finding a mouse in flight is “something that happens extremely rarely.”
Another spokesperson for Scandinavian Airlines told PEOPLE in a statement: “We made a very normal landing in Copenhagen to change aircraft and catering – which is a completely normal procedure when a rodent is found on board.”
“In these cases, we have very clear procedures to follow, including a full inspection of the aircraft and all of our suppliers’ processes to see what needs to be improved or changed to avoid these scenarios,” the statement continued. “This inspection and investigation has now been launched.”
Photo of Delta’s ‘rotten’ meals served to passengers reveals mold on food: ‘It was very sour’
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In July, a Delta flight was diverted to New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after passengers were served contaminated food with visible mold and required medical attention.
One passenger said the whole experience was “not good” as he described the incident to CBS News.
“There were these two black spots that almost looked like burnt cheese,” the sockets said. “I thought it was just something different, and it turned out to be black mold.”
A Delta spokesperson confirmed to PEOPLE at the time that meal service was adjusted on “several dozen flights” in the days after the incident so the airline could “cooperate with catering on a meal quality assurance review.”
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