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[RL Vaughn <Randy_Vaughn () baylor edu>]

<http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=40210>
Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an
unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning.
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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.

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