‘Who spilled rice?’ Atlanta flight delayed while crew waits on someone to claim spilled food

ATLANTA — A Southwest Airlines flight was the setting for a good, old-fashioned whodunit last weekend.

Jennifer Schaper says she was on a flight leaving from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on April 15 when someone spilled a large amount of rice in the aisle.

She says the flight attendant delayed the flight from taking off until someone claimed the spilled rice and cleaned it up.

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“The flight attendant screamed, ‘who spilled rice?’ and is walking up and down the aisles. They are refusing to leave the gate until someone cleans the rice,” Schaper wrote in a series of tweets.

She said eventually a flight attendant got a broom and cleaned the rice up herself.

“She has let us all know that we were not raised right and she is disappointed in all of us,” Schaper wrote.

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Channel 2 Action News reached out to Southwest who did not deny the incident. They instead released a statement that read:

We do not have any irregularity reports or specifics surrounding the passenger claims. It’s not unusual for a flight attendant to tidy the aircraft prior to departure, when needed.

“The over-dramatization of the whole event made it more comical than anything - coupled with the fact that we were further delayed by an oblivious passenger who took advantage of #RiceGate to use the bathroom and further delay the flight,” Schaper wrote.

It’s still unclear who spilled the rice.

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