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Bed Bugs on Plane: British Airways Passenger Claims Bites, Bugs

Passenger Claims Bed Bugs On Plane From Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Bed bugs are apparently not just found on beds anymore. Some have managed to infiltrate airplanes -- or so one passenger claims.

A woman says she was attacked by bed bugs last month while aboard a British Airways flight from L.A. to Bangalore.

28-year-old Zane Selkirk says she first noticed the bed bugs on her airline-provided blanket and her finger about three hours into the first leg of her flight, which was from L.A. to London's Heathrow Airport.

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