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• But it wasn't his job.
Still, Beirut Report journalist Habib Battah got his hands dirty on a recent flight from Paris to Toronto, Canoe reported.
"An hour into the transatlantic flight ... I kept smelling something gross and couldn't figure it out," Battah wrote on Twitter.
While investigating, he discovered a large, "wet to touch" stain on the floor around his seat.
The strap of his backpack, which was under the seat, was soaked in it, and a flight attendant only gave him some wipes to clean it up before "casually (noting) a passenger had hemorrhaged on a flight before ours," Battah said.
He said the Air France staff were shocked because a crew had removed the seats after the previous flight's incident, but apparently hadn't cleaned the bloody carpet.
"This is not a customer service issue -- it's a BIOHAZARD," Battah wrote. "There is fresh human blood on your aircraft." [Canoe, 7/4/2023]