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Title: Flatulence, not turbulence forces plane landing in Nashville
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The Tennessean
URL Source: http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=40210
Published: Dec 5, 2006
Author: Samuel Shu
Post Date: 2006-12-05 16:49:26 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 233
Comments: 17
Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning. American Flight 1053, from Washington Reagan National Airport and bound for Dallas/Fort Worth, made an emergency landing here after passengers reported smelling struck matches, said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority. The plane landed safely. The FBI, Transportation Safety Administration and airport authority responded to the emergency, Lowrance said. The passengers and five crew members were brought off the plane, together with all the luggage, to go through security checks again. Bomb-sniffing dogs found spent matches. The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches in an attempt to conceal body odor, Lowrance said. The woman lives near Dallas and has a medical condition. The flight took off again, but the woman was not allowed back on the plane. "American has banned her for a long time," Lowrance said. She was not charged but could have been. While it is legal to bring as many as four books of paper safety matches onto an aircraft, it is illegal to strike a match in an airplane, Lowrance said. By Samuel Shu, The Tennessean Last updated: 12/5/2006 3:07:10 PM
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Illegal to light a match? How the hell are you supposed to light up a cig? Oh, wait...that was back when we were a free country. Sorry. :-)
Back when, we were on an eight hour flight and I was seated next to a fat German guy that I wish had lit off a few matches to combat his B.O. - Dear God, that flight was brutal - I couldn't even smoke enough cigs to counter his personal power. The jokes about the Euro's and their hygienic habits, or lack thereof, are based in FACT. Apologies to any Euro's who bathe here.
I took coach from NY to Riyadh once and was just stretching out in the extra seats when a young 650 lb. Saudi and his friend squeezed in beside me. Most Saudis are slight in build, but this guy was HUGE. He slept all the way through a really long flight (except through a very cumbersome meal) that took us over Shannon. I tried to catch some sleep, but woke up eveey time he twitched - which was a lot and often. To top it off he was wearing some kind of oxen-rut-musk perfume in fashion over there, and it took a good stiff scrub in the shower to get it off me when I got in country. Believe that the airlines make guys like that buy an extra ticket these days. Altogether one of my more memorable overseas flights.
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From Wikipedia: (For your enlightenment Loddy) Mechanism of action The noises commonly associated with flatulence are caused by the vibration of the anus. The sound varies depending on the tightness of the sphincter muscle and velocity of the gas being propelled, as well as other factors such as water and body fat. The pitch of the flatulence outburst can also be affected by the anal embouchure. Among humans, sometimes farting happens accidentally, such as incidentally to coughing or sneezing; on other occasions, intentional farting occurs through the tensing and releasing of the anal sphincter. Flatus is brought to the rectum in the same peristalsis method as feces, causing a similar feeling of urgency and discomfort. Nerve endings in the rectum learn to distinguish between flatus and feces, although loose stool can confuse these nerves, and sometimes results in accidental defecation, colloquially known as "sharting", or "following through".
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined." Patrick Henry
Learn something new every day. Soon coming to a sidewalk near you. Tho I do remember with fondness a power blackout, an interior room with no windows, and me the only one with matches, and a lighter.
And here I was hoping that Wiki would NOT be consulted on this one... Just at dinner time, too. ;-)
There are no sacred cows or subjects to onerous for serious discussion here at 4UM.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined." Patrick Henry
They should have checked the rest rooms for someone cooking up a surprise. ;0)
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I drove a taxi many years ago and the only person I picked up who stunk to high heaven was some English guy. From what I've heard, I'm very lucky I never picked up a frog. And I don't mean the kind that hops. I've heard they don't take baths at all.
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Everyday I learn something. Embrouchure. Yes Indeed.
I was on a flight once about 20 years ago. It was a packed flight and the guy in front of me just reeked of B.O.. He had to of melted the seat he was sitting in. Tough 2 hour flight.
Mark The FBI, rather than trying to prevent a terrorist attack, was merely gathering intelligence so they would know who to arrest when a terrorist attack occurred.— Robert Wright - Former FBI agent "At temperatures above 800º C structural steel loses 90 percent of its strength. Yet even when steel structures are heated to those temperatures, they never disintegrate into piles of rubble, as did the Twin Towers and Building 7."-http://www.911research.net
Very educational thread..."sharting"..."embourchure"...always looking for unique words to introduce at the next party I attend, and this is a great time of year for that. :-)
what did you start here? :P
TMI ;)
Hardly. Remember; men are wired for science. We have to understand the 'engineering principles' associated with such phenomena.
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#2. To: lodwick (#1)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#3. To: who knows what evil (#2)
(Edited)
-Thomas Paine
#4. To: lodwick (#3)
#5. To: lodwick (#3)
#6. To: who knows what evil (#2)
Illegal to light a match (In a plane...
#7. To: noone222 (#5)
Flatus is brought to the rectum in the same peristalsis method as feces, causing a similar feeling of urgency and discomfort. Nerve endings in the rectum learn to distinguish between flatus and feces, although loose stool can confuse these nerves, and sometimes results in accidental defecation, colloquially known as "sharting", or "following through".
-Thomas Paine
#8. To: lodwick (#7)
And here I was hoping that Wiki would NOT be consulted
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
after passengers reported smelling struck matches,
#10. To: lodwick (#3)
The jokes about the Euro's and their hygienic habits, or lack thereof, are based in FACT.
#11. To: noone222 (#5)
outburst can also be affected by the anal embouchure
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#13. To: noone222 (#5)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#14. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#15. To: noone222 (#5)
#16. To: christine (#15)
TMI
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#17. To: Gasbags (#16)
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