Woman Under Fire After In-Flight Flatulence

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Dec 5, 2006 4:03 PM EST

Article Source: kptv.com

odd-news, humor, airplane, flatulence, farting, matches

What do you do if you pass embarrassing gas on an airplane? One woman found out what not to do.

A Nashville International Airport spokeswoman said an American Airlines plane bound for Texas had to make an emergency landing Monday morning in Nashville after matches were lit in flight.

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Danny McGee

Brilliant. I actually heard about this on the radio. The real pity is, matches don't even really disguise the smell (source: Mythbusters).

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#1 - Tue Dec 5, 2006 9:42 PM EST

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Will York

hahaha. Stupid people. Also, couldn't the small amount of methane in flatulence be a little flammable?

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#2 - Tue Dec 5, 2006 10:27 PM EST

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Glinda

yes, in fact my theory is she was bored and decided to do ~Blue Angels~ in the occupieds.

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#2.1 - Wed Dec 6, 2006 6:12 PM EST

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M. Remmers

"About 6:30 this morning, an American Airlines pilot called the FAA tower reporting that passengers were smelling fumes like matches being struck within the cabin," said airport spokeswoman Lynne Lowrance...

A woman passenger told investigators that she lit matches to mask gas that she emitted.

"You can take up to eight books of safety matches, the paper matches, onto the aircraft," Lowrance said.

So, you can take matches onto the aircraft... but you can't light them? We've got terrorists on the honor system now? If my flight got diverted because some idiot was too embarassed to admit they farted the FBI had better not interview me about their actions onboard because I wouldn't merely bend the truth... I'd break the mother@!$%#er right off! Their next flight would be straight to Gitmo!

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#3 - Wed Dec 6, 2006 2:56 AM EST

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Hoppy

Evidently the FBI was not abused by the woman's "Whoever 'smelt' it, dealt it" defense.

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2 votes

#4 - Wed Dec 6, 2006 4:59 PM EST

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	Flatulence Forces Plane to Land	Associated Press	Tue Dec 5	14
	Flatulence, not turbulence, forces plane to land	The Nashville Tennessean	Tue Dec 5	0

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