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A total of 34 passengers on two flights carrying a group of high school students from Guam to Japan fell ill with symptoms of suspected food poisoning, local emergency service officials said Friday.
According to the Narita airport office and the authorities from Chiba Prefecture, 16 were on Japan Airlines Flight 942 and 18 were on United Airlines Flight 873, which both landed at Narita airport Thursday night.
Among the passengers affected by symptoms such as vomiting, 14 needed to be taken to hospital after landing.
Some passengers reported feeling sick before boarding the flight, and Japan Airlines told airport officials it did not believe inflight meals to be the cause.
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Daniel Neagari
If this was a zombie movie type, 28 day later... we are doomed
tokyo-star
were they at the same accommodation before boarding the (different) flights?
dutch
thats a shame. Hope those poor kids are OK
Five Families
I hate to knock my counties airlines. But compared to Asian companies. No comparison.
Hope the kids will recover soon.
smithinjapan
"Some passengers reported feeling sick before boarding the flight, and Japan Airlines told airport officials it did not believe inflight meals to be the cause."
Ummm... yeah. So, they just all suddenly got sick by chance... you know... after eating the in-flight meal. The only thing that would surprise me less is if it were a school trip and the sick all students.
wallace
End of last year I had food poisoning from oysters. I was so bad for ten days. Never again.
factchecker
They should have had the lasagne instead of the fish.
OssanAmerica
Thank God the pilots didn't share the same meal.
Peter Neil
two separate flights on two separate airlines, passengers felt sick before boarding, but let’s jump to the conclusion that it was airline food.
uh, right.
Alongfortheride
Pilots are not allowed to have the same meal. For exactly this reason.
Alongfortheride