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Onions cause emergency landing

onionsA Milan to Miami flight made an emergency landing in Boston's Logan International Airport last week after crew members were overcome with noxious fumes. The crew donned oxygen masks after smelling a foul odor, fearing it was a toxic gas. Boston firefighters and emergency workers in hazmat suits boarded the plane only to find...five tons of minced onions. The onions were unloaded from the plane and shipped by truck to their final destination.

Here at Slashfood we've devoted several posts to the onion-crying phenomenon. But I don't believe we've ever dealt with what to do when you've got 10,000 pounds of onion in your cargo hold...

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Tags: america, fumes, onions, planes, vegetables

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Doctor Electro

3-23-2008 @1:58PM Doctor Electro said... When I was a teen, I worked in an onion packing facility. Even though the building was open to the air on all sides, the aroma was often overpowering. I can easily imagine the flight crew's reaction to the smell.
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Teddy

3-24-2008 @3:09AM Teddy said... I've never experienced more than 2 or 3 onions being cut at once. I cannot even imagine that much- and I've got a high tolerance to the smell!

Teddy
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