Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

from the bbc: (who else?)

Flatulence leads US jet to divert
















see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6213644.stm

An American Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Nashville after passengers reported the smell of sulphur from burning matches.

The matches were found on the seat of a woman who had attempted to conceal the odour of flatulence with the matches, Nashville airport authorities said.

All 99 passengers and five crew left the plane while it was searched. (and fumigated...)

The woman was questioned by the FBI (ha ha!) but released without charge and allowed to board another American Airlines flight.

"It was determined that she was trying to conceal body odour," said Lynne Lowrance of the Nashville Airport Authority. (really?)

for everything else, there's mastercard...