Passengers talk about fumes aboard Las Vegas bound flight
It’s safe to bet no group of passengers has ever been happier to see oxygen masks fall from the ceiling, after those on board struggled to breathe several thousand feet up.
“Everyone started coughing and gagging and then we started coughing and gagging,” passenger Connie Lasher says.
“I turned to her to say something and I started coughing and then she did and we were just hiding our faces trying to find air,” passenger Donna Zahn says.
“That’s when I got up to tell her something was burning my eyes and we saw her reach for the phone and start calling the pilot,” passenger Richard Becerio says.
Passengers aboard Southwest Airlines flight 756 from Kansas City to Las Vegas say they wore oxygen for 20 minutes.
This after something that smelled electrical but felt like pepper spray invaded the cabin.....
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2 dead, plague-infected mice lost by NJ lab
TRENTON, N.J. - The frozen remains of two mice injected with the organism that causes plague have not been accounted for seven weeks after being discovered missing at a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey facility in Newark, the university said Friday.
The FBI investigated and determined there was no risk to public health or any indication of the terrorist link.
UMDNJ’s Public Health Research Institute issued a four-paragraph statement late Friday saying it believes the red hazardous waste bag containing the dead mice was sterilized and incinerated along with another bag.....
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