{"id":22973,"date":"2012-08-01T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=22973"},"modified":"2012-08-01T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T10:12:10","slug":"passenger-finds-needle-in-air-canada-sandwich-22973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/passenger-finds-needle-in-air-canada-sandwich-22973\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger finds needle in Air Canada sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Air-Canada-plane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22994\" title=\"Air Canada plane\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Air-Canada-plane-e1343815878946.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>A passenger on an Air Canada flight found a sewing needle in a catered sandwich during a flight Monday, the airline said.<\/h1>\n<p>Peter Fitzpatrick, a spokesman for Air Canada, said Tuesday that the airline is &#8220;working closely&#8221; with its caterer, which he didn&#8217;t name, to &#8220;ensure heightened security measures have been put in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The police are investigating the incident, which occurred on a flight from Victoria, British Columbia, to Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Safety is always our top priority so we are taking this matter very seriously,&#8221; Fitzpatrick said, adding that it appeared to be an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI and Dutch authorities are also investigating reports of needles found in six sandwiches on Delta flights from Amsterdam to the United States two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Gate Gourmet, a 20-year-old company that provided prepared sandwiches to Delta, said the sandwiches originated at the firm&#8217;s facility in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it is one of the caterers that serve Air Canada but not the airline&#8217;s provider out of Victoria &#8212; from where the flight took off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are cooperating fully with Air Canada and have complied with our customer&#8217;s request to its caterers to heighten food safety procedures, including inspection and screening of all products boarded on flights,&#8221; said Gate Gourmet spokeswoman Christina Ulosevich. &#8220;We are working closely to support our customer, including cooperating with the authorities investigating the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger on an Air Canada flight found a sewing needle in a catered sandwich during a flight Monday, the airline said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[29978,29986,29984,29980,29981,29976,3748,29974,29973,29982,29985,29983],"class_list":["post-22973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-air-canada","tag-air-canada-passenger-needle","tag-air-canada-peter-fitzpatrick","tag-air-canada-sandwich","tag-air-canada-sandwich-needle","tag-british-columbia-toronto","tag-canada","tag-canada-british-columbia","tag-canada-toronto","tag-needle-sandwich-air-canada","tag-passenger-finds-needle-in-air-canada-sandwich","tag-peter-fitzpatrick-air-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}