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Hot coffee hijacks United Airlines plane?!
Drinking and driving is a problem ... and drinking and flying is no different. A United Airlines pilot found this out the hard way: he spilled his coffee, which triggered a hijacking alert. So, United Flight 940, which was set to go from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, had to dash across the border to Canada for an unscheduled stop.A hijacking alert can have that effect, you know.
The plane landed safely in Toronto, an emergency was declared and the defense department in Canada was notified. In the end, everything was sorted out
Hey, buddy: ever heard of a travel mug?
[photo by dimnikolov via Flickr]
Filed under: North America, Canada, United States, Airlines
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Charley Jan 5th 2011 11:33PM
There was a movie in 1964 called "Fate Is the Hunter" that showed that coffee and airplane cockpits don't mix.