Coming soon: Maggots on a plane!

It seems that life is just fun on US Airways, when a discovery of maggots halted and forced a service back to the gate.

Let the video do the talking:



There's a whole peice on Syracuse.com, but there can be only one word to describe this.

EWWWWW!

Hat tip: The Register

Might be some delay in furthers posts

Sorry for the delay in posts - and they will be delayed today due to me getting a replacement GhettoIFE device....

Can you tell what it is yet?







More maybe later ;)

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Immigration: How not to do it...

It seems that the UK is still an entry hotspot, and it's been highlighted in a lovely post on the BBC News site.

It seems a 20-year-old Romanian wanted to escape Vienna, and stowed away in the rear wheel compartment of an aircraft, not knowing where it was heading.

According to the CAA, there was a varity of way he could had been killed on the journey

"If they don't find the right part to stow away, they can be crushed when the undercarriage comes up," he said.

"Because of the altitude and temperatures during the flight, there is a severe risk to them through exposure and lack of oxygen.

"If that doesn't kill them, then they could be unconscious when the aircraft descends, and that can mean that when the undercarriage opens again, they will fall out."

He had bruises and hypothermia from outside temperatures as low as -41C, and survived due to the low altitudes the plane was forced to take on its journey.

Police arrested him for stowing away, but later released without charge, with a caution.

Whilst the UK Borders agency could had been interested, they have chosen not to take action - as Romania is part of the EU, no issue regarding visiting the UK exists. Working in the UK is another matter of course as controls exist.

So next time, consider what plane you're travelling on, and ideally - not in the undercarriage....

Air France considers loosing its marbles... and considers a CDG-LHR A380 deployment

Ok. WHAT is Air France on THIS time?

It seems Air France is considering becoming Lemming Airlines en France with the latest news that they're seriously considering deploying an A380 to serve the London to Paris market.

Umm. April was last month kids.

Anyhoo according to Flight, the carrier is looking at other options to exploit the capacity of the 538-seat jet.

The full details are yet to be given out, there is a want by Air France to maximise usage of its 3 frames, and use it for training and operations runs.

Details if this happening will occur in the next few weeks, with thoughts that that Paris-London is a busy route and other carriers can use large-capacity aircraft on relatively short, high-density sectors.

Ok. It's been proven, Centre to Centre there is only ONE game in town in the London to Paris route, and it's called Eurostar. Air traffic has gone down the pan since the Channel Tunnel and Eurostar have inaugurated services.

I'm not sure, but this deployment IF it happens will rank high on the stupidity level.....

Err... What the? (Women try to take body on plane)

As I'm trying to avoid any Election 2010 coverage, this is the top story in England at the moment

"Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport"

Obviously this warrented a look.

The police arrested two women after they tried to take the body of a dead relative onto a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

I'm  honestly *speechless*, and I can't come up with anything witty for this....