EWWW! IT WAS MAGGOTS ON A PLANE!

People on an Atlanta flight Monday probably wished they’d had Samuel L. Jackson to come to the rescue when a horde of maggots appeared on their plane, falling from the overhead bin onto horrified passengers.

The maggots, which were nesting in a spoiled container of meat, were brought onboard by a passenger in a carry-on bag, US Airways spokesman Todd Lehmacher told The Associated Press.

Passenger Donna Adamo said she saw a few flies when she first boarded the flight but didn’t notice anything unusual.

Then, as the plan was taxiing, she heard someone behind her making a scene.

"I heard the word 'maggot' and that kind of got everybody creeped out," Adamo told the AP. "All of a sudden, I felt somebody flick the back of my hair and on the front of me came a maggot, which I flicked off me."

Adamo was able to capture the stomach-turning experience on her cell-phone video camera, which shows a maggot slithering across a seat.

After the incident, the flight's pilot announced that instead of flying to Charlotte, N.C., as planned, they were heading back to the gate due to a "minor emergency onboard."

Flight attendants tried to soothe passengers, but Adamo was too traumatized by the experience to calm down.

"I felt like they were crawling all over me because it only takes one maggot to upset your world," she said. "And as they're telling us to stay calm and seated, I see a maggot looking back at me and I'm thinking, 'These are anaerobic, flesh-eating larvae that the flight attendants don't have to sit with.'"

Once the plane had returned to the gate, the passengers got off, and a crew came onboard to clean up the mess, said Lehmacher. The flight then continued to Charlotte, where the plane was taken out of service and fumigated.

Lehmacher said the passenger who brought the spoiled meat did not reboard and was put on a different flight. It is still unclear why the passenger brought the meat on the flight.

"You can buy meat anywhere," Adamo said. "I don't know what special piece of meat was in Atlanta that needed to get to Charlotte, but it affected hundreds, if not thousands ... of passengers, and is a health risk."