An Indonesian airline delays its flight after passengers have quarreled with the staff about a durian smell in the cargo

An Indonesian airline was forced to delay a flight Monday after the strong smell of durian permeates the cabin of the plane and almost caused a fight between passengers and crew.

Travelers aboard a Sriwajiya Air flight from Bengkulu (Indonesia) to Jakarta complained of the smell before takeoff, insisting that the airline remove the pungent and smelly fruit – whose cargo hold was close to 4,500 pounds Straits times.

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The situation inside the cabin would have been so much worse that passengers and crew members nearly fell "dead-end," according to the Jakarta Post, citing a report by a journalist Antara who was in the plane.

Airline staff claimed that the odor would dissipate once the flight was completed, but passengers refused to catch the plane and landed. Ground passengers then recorded crews unloading durian cargo from the cargo area.

The incident delayed the flight for about an hour.

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A representative of Sriwijaya Air has since claimed that the smell of durian has been intensified because of the heat, despite the conditioning of the fruit and the "establishment of pandan leaves and coffee powder" for absorb the odor.

"The Durian is not classified as a dangerous material to be transported in an airplane," Abdul Rahim of Sriwijaya Air said in a television broadcast, the Straits Times reported.

Meanwhile, Bengkulu Airport would be rethinking how the durian will be transported on future flights.

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This is not the first time that the durian causes a stench literally and figuratively. In April, 600 people were evacuated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's library – and teams were dispatched to check for gas leaks – after a rotting durian was left in a closet.

The fruit, sometimes called the "king of fruits," has a creamy, stringy texture, but also an odor that Smithsonian magazine once compared to "turpentine and onions topped with a sports sock."

Andrew Zimmern, of "Bizarre Foods," who famously eats the most intimidating and confusing foods in the world, also compared it to "rotten onions" and said that he was even " too much for [him]. "