Look out! The terrorists have curry!
Something didn't smell right. British Airways passengers started to panic when a foul smell started coming from their aircraft on a flight between Belgrade and London. Fearing a terrorist attack, the captain turned around the aircraft and put it back down in the Serbian capital, where the aircraft was evacuated and contained separately on the runway.Passengers screamed in horror fleeing from the aircraft as they were helped by workers in hazmat suits.
Investigators first feared that a a container with acidic chemicals had burst in the hold and was causing havoc among the cargo. But upon further investigation, they narrowed the source down to a package of curry.
This follows on the heels of an emergency landing earlier this year of an Alitalia flight because of similar fears --- the source of which was revealed to be minced onions.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Jul 3rd 2008 @ 6:56AM
Willy said...
This is the funniest post ever.
And it wasn't even a joke. Jeezum.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 7:08AM
smkster said...
You should have gotten the recipe.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 8:51AM
elizabeth said...
This is too funny. Has anyone submitted a video to YouTube yet. A plane full of people screaming in terror because of some curry. Although I have to say I have screamed in pain because of to much curry. :)
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 9:36AM
Islander said...
This is an issue that has no simple answers. Common sense and courtesy should dictate that a food item that is pungent will offend a large number of people and should not be brought aboard an aircraft. However, many cultures subsist on diets that are exactly that: pungent. These cultures cannot stand the blandness of the western food that will offend less than 0.01% of the world's population.
Too bad for those cultures. The so-called bland food that we westerners consume will not kill you or scald you to death and can be eaten by nearly everyone on the planet. Pungent food has no place in a trapped environment like an airplane or bus.
Grab a fresh hot pizza from the terminal and we can all enjoy the aroma.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 10:00AM
flyAArmy said...
Common Sense, it is so simple yet rarely used...
Worst flight I ever worked, The family using "Common Sense" brought her family food, I was so happy...... Common Sense didn't work when she packed the entire family TUNA FISH!
OMG... The stinch..... You can't make this stuff up!
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 10:25AM
Heathereeee said...
I have the sweetest neighbors in the entire world but they use curry to cook every single meal. I swear to god...I think they even put that stuff on ice cream....
Since we live in a duplex/condo, the smell comes through our walls at least three times a day and will (quite literally) make your stomach turn over about fifty thousand times. I can't even imagine why some idiot would have brough it on a plane.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 10:26AM
Heathereeee said...
I have the sweetest neighbors in the entire world but they use curry to cook every single meal. I swear to god...I think they even put that stuff on ice cream....
Since we live in a duplex/condo, the smell comes through our walls at least three times a day and will (quite literally) make your stomach turn over about fifty thousand times. I can't even imagine why some idiot would have brough it on a plane.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 10:29AM
Jo Jo said...
Try standing in an elevator with a kimchee fanatic!
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 10:37AM
Jiggy said...
I had a friend who had a Korean girl friend who spilled Kimchi in my car.I had it steamed cleaned twice and had to rive with the windows down for a month.If you have never smelled Kimchi it is as close to puke as you can get !
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 11:05AM
Malia said...
PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BRING FOOD OF ANY KIND ON AIRPLANES!
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 11:14AM
dita said...
Um, this post is about British Airways, so for those of you screamin' and hollerin' about immigrant this and that, particularly #'s 4 and 10, curry is absolutely not foreign to the Brits. All Brits, white, brown, black ,and purple alike. It is practically their national food, they love it so much. The person probably just thought "Hmm. I am probably not going to be able to get any good curry in Serbia, perhaps I'll take along my own."
I actually think that it would have been better in his carry on versus the cargo, because at least that part of the plane is ventilated.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 11:25AM
Cecile said...
If it smelled that bad, it no doubt had gone bad.
Usually curry smells good.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 11:31AM
Cecile said...
Good point. I'm also of Irish heritage and love the Indian cuisine.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 11:44AM
TK said...
It's racist comments like yours that set this country back 100 years. How ignorant!
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 11:46AM
Diana said...
Curry does smell and taste pretty good, but it can be overwhelming. This reminds me of the guy who sat NEXT to me on a non-stop flight from Hawaii to NY. He ATE the stinky stuff. Then, it came out of his pores for the next 9 hours. I, too, wanted to scream.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 11:47AM
TK said...
Oh, and tuna isn't offensive - get used to other people's food choices, this is not Nazi Germany.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 12:01PM
abe said...
curries are nothing to worry about. it is just that some people don't make and maintain them well, which would make them smell.
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 12:11PM
Lou Argus said...
How do you "MAKE " curry? It is a spice
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Jul 4th 2008 @ 2:15PM
MamaLiz said...
Curry is not "A" spice, it is a blend of spices. There are many different kinds of curry mixtures. In England, people refer to dishes prepared using such a blend as "a curry."
Jul 4th 2008 @ 12:22PM
Diana said...
Yummy! Kimchee. (I'm an old, white American broad, too)!
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