Posted on 12/06/2014 8:21:54 PM PST by DogByte6RER
US Airways plane grounded by sick crew, passengers
The Philadelphia-bound flight from Israel made an emergency landing in Rome after all 14 crew members, including four pilots, were affected by a mysterious smell.
Vomiting crew members and passengers forced a Philadelphia-bound flight to make an emergency landing in Rome, airline officials said.
The US Airways Flight US797 was en route from Israel when an odor in the cabin began to sicken the people aboard, NBC News reported.
All 14 crew members, including the four pilots, were affected, and the mysterious smell made two passengers ill as well, an airline spokeswoman told the network.
The plane made an unscheduled landing at Fiumicino Airport in Rome where three flight attendants went by ambulance to an onsite clinic.
The rest of the affected crew and passengers were also treated at the clinic for nausea and irritated eyes before they were released.
The aircraft landed safely and all passengers were re-accommodated on other flights, ...
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Did they have the chicken or the fish?
There are occasionally problems with the ventilation and the toilets, shall we say, so this could have been accidental. However, I’d check it out very carefully if I were US Airways.
Whoever smelt it dealt it.
Highly unlikely that would affect the cockpit.
Randy : Can I get you something?
Second Jive Dude : ‘S’mofo butter layin’ me to da’ BONE! Jackin’ me up... tight me!
Randy : I’m sorry, I don’t understand.
First Jive Dude : Cutty say ‘e can’t HANG!
Jive Lady : Oh stewardess! I speak jive.
Randy : Oh, good.
Jive Lady : He said that he’s in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
Randy : All right. Would you tell him to just relax and I’ll be back as soon as I can with some medicine?
Jive Lady : Jus’ hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da’ rebound on da’ med side.
Second Jive Dude : What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!
Jive Lady : Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don’ want no help, chump don’t GET da’ help!
First Jive Dude : Say ‘e can’t hang, say seven up!
Jive Lady : Jive dude don’t got no brains anyhow! Hmmph!
Ah yes, I had the lasagna...
If you aren’t watching “Zero Hour”, then the doctor had lasagna.
Maybe what happened is this....instead of playing an inflight movie, they were showing the passengers and crew Obama campaign speeches from 2012.
“...sympathy barfers...”
Exactly. Only takes one to get the ball rolling.
“when an odor in the cabin began to sicken the people aboard,”
Who signed off on the Lavs being dumped??
Four pilots?
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