Terror alert bears smelly fruit on Oz plane
Jan 17, 2003, 9:29 am
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Terror alert bears smelly fruit on Oz plane
Terror alert bears smelly fruit on Oz plane
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">An infamously smelly fruit in the cargo hold of an Australian airliner forced a full-scale security alert and evacuation of the plane on Thursday as baggage handlers feared they faced a possible terrorist threat.
The Virgin Blue flight from Brisbane to Adelaide was delayed for four hours while police and firefighters investigated a suspicious odour and white powder found in the cargo area, officials said.
The powder turned out to be carpet deodoriser that a passenger had sprayed on a package containing the notoriously smelly south-east Asian fruit, durian, apparently in a failed bid to disguise the odour, officials said.</font>
The Virgin Blue flight from Brisbane to Adelaide was delayed for four hours while police and firefighters investigated a suspicious odour and white powder found in the cargo area, officials said.
The powder turned out to be carpet deodoriser that a passenger had sprayed on a package containing the notoriously smelly south-east Asian fruit, durian, apparently in a failed bid to disguise the odour, officials said.</font>
Jan 17, 2003, 10:05 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by onedog:
Reminds me of many years ago my wife (back when she was just my girlfirend and thought it would be a neat practical joke) brought back from Sweden a gift for me of a can of Surstroming (sp?) which is a notoriously super foul smelling food - the only way I can describe it is basically it is something like rotted food in a can. </font>
Reminds me of many years ago my wife (back when she was just my girlfirend and thought it would be a neat practical joke) brought back from Sweden a gift for me of a can of Surstroming (sp?) which is a notoriously super foul smelling food - the only way I can describe it is basically it is something like rotted food in a can. </font>
A friend of mine who used to work ground crew at GOT told me that SK once ran a regional fare promotion. One of the meals contained cans of the stuff. One pax's can was not refrigerated and had really gone off. Can was under pressure and when opened, you can imagine what happened. The a/c was taken out of service.