Air New Zealand plane passengers "fumigated alive"

Xeni Jardin 5:39 pm Tue Apr 1, 2008

Passengers on an Air New Zealand flight from Fiji found themselves being fumigated yesterday, after the crew discovered the aircraft's biosecurity clearance had expired:

A bio-security certificate prevents an airline from having to fumigate an aircraft every time it returns here.

The spraying left the man with a sore throat and caused a baby to gag and vomit.

The construction engineer said the MAF officers took about five minutes to fumigate the plane before leaving the passengers to sit in "a thick fog" as they sealed the door shut behind them.

Link, and here's a related story about an asthmatic passenger who thought she was going to die. (thanks, David Carroll)

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