airborne exploding curry
The London Paper — British Airways has banned staff from using microwaves for non-airline food after an exploding curry cost the company £20,000 in damages.
An air hostess caused chaos on a flight from Heathrow to Miami after her ready meal blew up at 35,000ft.
Staff had to use a fire extinguisher to control the flaming high-power microwave, but British Airways insists that the incident did not endanger passenger safety.
However, the explosion caused extensive damage to the Boeing 747 which needed days of repairs.
British Airways has since banned cabin crews from using the ovens to prepare their own food and sent a warning email to its staff.
In a memo headed “microwave incident”, it instructed staff that food must be packaged carefully when using its club-class ovens because they are twice as powerful as regular domestic microwaves.
cates: there go my plans for a weaponless terrorist outrage. i had a backpack full of curries-for-one in my closet ready for some action.
jay: game on, player. they only banned cabin crews from using the microwaves. there was nothing in the memo about civilian non-weaponed terrorists.