December 07, 2006

 

Nashville - the new "windy city"

We all thought that Chicago was "The Windy City", but that ewas before an American Airlines flight carrying 99 passengers made an emergency landing in Nashville earlier this week after passengers reported a strange scent that smelled like struck matches. Indeed, the offending odor did come from struck matches. A Dallas woman on the flight "admitted she struck the matches in an attempt to mask evidence of a troubled digestive system." The Washington -to-Dallas/Fort Worth flight eventually took off again, but the woman was not on board. "American has banned her for a long time," says Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority.

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