Flatulence on plane sparks emergency landing

[sui generis]

(or, as I like to call it, Latest Breaking Wind News)

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- It is considered polite to light a match after passing gas. Not while on a plane.

An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of flatulence, authorities said.

The Dallas-bound flight was diverted to Nashville after several passengers reported smelling burning sulfur from the matches, said Lynne Lowrance, spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority. All 99 passengers and five crew members were taken off and screened while the plane was searched and luggage was screened.

The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches in an attempt to conceal a "body odor," Lowrance said. She had an unspecified medical condition, authorities said.

"It's humorous in a way but you feel sorry for the individual, as well," she said. "It's unusual that someone would go to those measures to cover it up."

The flight took off again, but the woman was not allowed back on the plane. The woman, who was not identified, was not charged in the incident.

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Green Onions, Taco Bell, Planes Falling Out of Sky. Is there a link?

[sui generis]

1. What?!? I didn't break any rules. How'd I end up here?

I love you too skinner.

[texas1928]

2. When Keith reported this last night...

I was in tears. I know it is not really funny... BUT!!! :rofl:


I mean that is some farting if you can bring down a plane.

[jakefrep]

3. Will this inspire next summer's blockbuster?

FARTS ON A PLANE!

[xchrom]

4. are you the new junior reporter for matcom news?!?!?!

funniest thing i've read in weeks!

[Tyler Durden]

5. FARTS ON A MUTHAFUKKIN' PLANE!

Somebody had to say it.

[rug]

6. New TSA rules will measure the amount of gas in your bowels before you're allowed to board.

[sui generis]

7. that's fartly true, but actually just the binary components

will measure the amount of beans in your stomach and liquid you have ingested.

No more than three ounces!

It could have been worse for that poor woman. Oxygen masks could have dropped from the ceiling; the plane could have rolled, they could have ended up on some island somewhere and had to eat each other to survive. Heh heh. An island in Texas. Within walking distance of an IHOP.

It could happen!

[rug]

8. If they had to resort to cannibalism, the flatulent corpse would go last.