Since early April, an A&E five-person crew has been prowling Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI), hoping to capture some of the more interesting realities of airline travel.

The crew filmed a hodgepodge of story lines, including a baggage mishap.

A woman arriving from her native Ghana was scheduled to connect on a Southwest flight to Raleigh-Durham, N.C.

Coming to America for the first time to visit her daughter, who was due to give birth, the woman had packed ingredients for a traditional soup she planned to make. What kind of ingredients? Well, fish, for one thing. Fish that, by the time they reached the Southwest cargo hold, were stinking and covered in maggots that had started crawling out of the suitcase.

"That was an 'A' story line," says Mislan.