Today's Idiot? Hey, I dunno, it just struck me as a stinker. Hold yer nose...Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning.
Well, not exactly...
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.
See, toldja.
"Nadine! Do you smell burnt matches?"
"It's ain't burnt matches! Don't smile, Katie! It'll stain your teeth!"
The plane landed safely. The FBI, Transportation Safety Administration and airport authority responded to the emergency, Lowrance said.
"Whoa! What's that smell? Smells more like somethin' died!"
"Unit 2, be advised breathing apparatus is required!"
The passengers and five crew members 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 Yah, shure. Lol.
Chili is 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.
We don't have enough of those cute little pinetree thingys. Sorry.
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.
You get no strikes - then you're out, lol.