BA flight grounded by curry?!

[Amby 490]

A BA jet diverted after passengers thought they smelt poison gas was really grounded by curry.

The flight from Belgrade to London made an emergency evacuation after passengers panicked, fearing a terrorist gas attack.

But an official investigation into the incident at the Nikola Tesla Airport in the Serbian capital has revealed the fumes had escaped from a giant container of curry spices in the plane's cargo hold.

"The smell spread from the package of an aromatic food spice," confirmed the Serbian Ministry for the Protection of Human Environment.

At first, officials suspected a canister of powerful acidic chemicals had burst open in the hold.

But health officials have blamed the curry for the security scare.

"The chemical that was found in the cargo hold of the airplane did not leak out," said the spokesman. "It was sodium-selenite. But the smell did not spread from there."

Dozens of passengers had to flee the plane after it was returned to Belgrade and contained on a special emergency procedure runway at the airport.

Emergency workers wearing breathing apparatus helped screaming passengers off the plane before the source of the fumes was discovered.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2914214.html?menu=

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Not as good as the feces-fountain on that Continental fight last year...

[Amby 490]

the smell of curry would make me think something was going wrong

[Jenn! 918]

No one on a BA flight could identify the smell as curry?

[Peikko 1,575]

I take it you haven't had an airline curry then Jenn

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Shove a ####### in a blender with some curry powder and water and you're halfway there...

[Amby 490]

curry is so awful. I can't even imagine how disgusting airplane curry is.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

A good curry can be great, though a bad one is not unlike being forced to eat a loop of your own intestines at gunpoint...

[palilover 1]

they have curry on airlines? Hm...I dont know if I'd try that. I do LOVE curry but as an airplane food, I think not

[eric&gen 0]

Too spicy for me blows flames out my azz after farting.

Edited July 3, 2008 by eric&gen

[Welshcookie 17]

Not as good as the feces-fountain on that Continental fight last year...

[Jenn! 918]

No I haven't had airplane curry, but I've never met a curry I didn't like!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I can handle any curry. So long as there's enough toilet paper to deal with the aftermath...

[Sister Fracas 5]

We had a curry on our flight to India. It was just fine. Wasn't on BA though. *shrug*

No extra bog roll needed.