AirFrance passenger makes horrifying, bloody discovery on flight to Toronto

An Air France passenger is seeing red after he came across a blood-soaked patch of carpet on his flight from Paris to Toronto.

An Air France passenger is seeing red after he came across a blood-soaked patch of carpet on his flight from Paris to Toronto — and said he was forced to clean up the biohazard by himself.

Journalist Habib Battah, founder of the Beirut Report, described his horror when he noticed that his belongings came into contact with a previous passenger’s blood, the New York Post reports.

“I’ve seen a few things in my life, but the horrific blood-soaked carpet on my @airfrance plane yesterday was another level,” Mr Battah tweeted Saturday. “An hour into the transatlantic flight from Paris to Toronto, I kept smelling something gross and couldn’t figure it out.”

He explained that when he looked down, he noticed a large red stain near his seat.

“It was wet to the touch. At first the @airfrance attendant shrugged and gave me some wipes,” Mr Battah wrote.

“In my broken French I told her it smelled like merde (s**t). The wipes came up blood red. I used over a dozen of them.”

Battah said he was forced to clean it by himself after his belongings came in contact with it. Picture: Twitter/Habib Battah

He said he removed his backpack from under the seat in front of him and noticed that its strap also was soaked.

“I got on my hands and knees and cleaned for half an hour,” the passenger wrote, adding that the crew gave him gloves and additional wipes for him to scrub the floor.

“Then they casually noted a passenger had haemorrhaged on a flight before ours,” Mr Battah continued.

Battah said he was forced to clean it by himself after his belongings came in contact with it. Picture: Twitter/ Habib Battah

He posted several photographs and a video to document his bloody work.

“Here I am trying to get the blood off my luggage that it absorbed from the airplane carpet,” Mr Battah explained. “The @airfrance staff crowded around, shocked because they claimed a cleaning crew had removed the seats after the sick passenger incident, but apparently not cleaned the floor.”

He said one flight attendant mentioned that the previous passenger had “internal bleeding and infection,” so he wondered whether he and the rest of the passengers were exposed to a disease.

Battah worried that people on board may have been exposed to a disease. Picture: Twitter/ Habib Battah

Battah said a crew member mentioned that a previous passenger had ‘internal bleeding and infection’. Picture: Twitter/Habib

“I really hope @airfrance takes this seriously and can tell us if we were exposed to any hazardous medical/bio water,” Mr Battah wrote. “Chief attendant filed a report, noting sick passenger travelled Thursday from Paris to Boston.”

In response to his viral social media posts, Air France released a statement saying: “Hi @habib_b, this particular matter is being taken into account and you will be contacted by our teams as soon as possible. Once again, we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you.”

I've seen a few things in my life, but the horrific blood-soaked carpet on my @airfrance plane yesterday was another level! An hour into the transatlantic flight from Paris to Toronto, I kept smelling something gross and couldn't figure it out. Until I got up and looked down...(1 pic.twitter.com/if919aLlO8

— Habib Battah (@habib_b) July 1, 2023

Mr Battah thanked the airline for responding, but wrote: “This is not a customer service issue — it’s a BIsOHAZARD. There is fresh human blood on your aircraft.

“You may have exposed me and other passengers to infectious disease. We need to know the condition of the sick passengers ASAP,” he wrote.

The Post has reached out to Air France for further comment.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission