That’s right- a woman forced the emergency landing of an airplane early Monday morning in Nashville. Knoxville Tennessee’s WBIR.Com has the story:
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.
Was it… Islamic terrorists assembling explosives on board? A Richard Reid type trying to light his shoe-bomb? You can be sure that the 99 passengers aboard were somewhat nervous during the ordeal. WBIR tells us that after the plane safely landed,
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.
Then, shortly thereafter, the FBI solved the case: A passenger lit matches to conceal "body odor" caused by a "medical condition." Turns out, she had flatulence and lit matches, hoping the sulfur smell would mask hers.
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Can you imagine what might have happened? I can hear the eyewitness descriptions now… "Well, first there was this smell. And then BAM- a huge blue flame engulfed the cabin…"
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Obviously the work of a would-be pew bomber… Me? I would’ve blamed the [bomb-sniffing] dog.
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H/T Drudge