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Flatulence leads to flight diversion

  • 12-12-2006 5:02am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭


    Banned from the airline..I wonder if it was the food she ate. :)
    NASHVILLE — Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning.

    American Flight 1053, from Washington Reagan National Airport and bound for Dallas/Fort Worth, made an emergency landing here after passengers reported smelling struck matches, said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority.

    The plane landed safely. The FBI, Transportation Safety Administration and airport authority responded to the emergency, Lowrance said.

    The passengers and five crewmembers were brought off the plane, together with all the luggage, to go through security checks again. Bomb-sniffing dogs found spent matches.

    The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches in an attempt to conceal body odor, Lowrance said. The woman lives near Dallas and has a medical condition.

    The flight took off again, but the woman was not allowed back on the plane.

    "American has banned her for a long time," Lowrance said.

    She was not charged but could have been. While it is legal to bring as many as four books of paper safety matches onto an aircraft, it is illegal to strike a match in an airplane, Lowrance said.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,472 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    While it is legal to bring as many as four books of paper safety matches onto an aircraft, it is illegal to strike a match in an airplane

    The Mind boggles!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Bond-007 wrote:
    The Mind boggles!
    and the arse rumbles.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Bush declares war on flatulence!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,472 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Baked beans and Mexican food will be banned.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Bond-007 wrote:
    Baked beans and Mexicans will be banned.

    More than likely this would be more accurate.

    Everyone knows they cause flatulence


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    So thats the real reason why O2 masks are supplied.:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    Read that last week. Funny stuff alright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Rabies wrote:
    and the arse rumbles.

    :D:D Heard it already - typical americans and their over-reaction to everything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,648 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    So thats the real reason why O2 masks are supplied.:)
    O2 + CH4 + ignition source = :eek:


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