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[log in to unmask]>, J Dolliver <[log in to unmask]> writes
>http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pub&dt=061206&cat=strange&st=str
>anged8lrb5701&src=ap
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>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - 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.

I think I might know her first name, at least. When the pilot asked a 
flight attendant what the funny smell was, and where it was coming from, 
he was told "It's Ethel, m'Captain"....
-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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