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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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