NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) It is considered polite to light a match after
passing gas. Not while on a plane.

An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing
Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of
flatulence, authorities said.

The Dallas-bound flight was diverted to Nashville after several
passengers reported smelling burning sulfur from the matches, said
Lynne Lowrance, spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport
Authority. All 99 passengers and five crew members were taken off and
screened while the plane was searched and luggage was screened.

The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches in
an attempt to conceal a "body odor," Lowrance said. She had an
unspecified medical condition, authorities said.

"It's humorous in a way but you feel sorry for the individual, as
well," she said. "It's unusual that someone would go to those
measures to cover it up."

The flight took off again, but the woman was not allowed back on the
plane. The woman, who was not identified, was not charged in the
incident.





It could have been worse, she could have been searched by Homeland
Security officers, who were looking for a bugle.



Jeebus, give the girl a break, when I fart on a plane the other
passengers
try to open the windows.


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The burning sulphur smell is easily explaned--it was a flight from Hell.
;-)

Peter