In all the years that the public relations people of Singapore Airlines (SIA) have fended off bad press, this one might be the weirdest one they had to debunk.
Reportedly, an SIA freighter plane had to make an emergency landing in Denpasar, Bali, on Oct 26 because the 2,186 sheep it was transporting were just farting too much. Reportedly.
The report appeared first on The Aviation Herald, which stated that SQ flight 7018 from Sydney to KL was en route when the four-member crew received a smoke indication in their cargo bay. Upon making the diversion to Denpasar for the landing, emergency services did not find any trace of smoke, fire or even any heat.
The only heat however was from the warm manure and unbridled flatulence from the sheep, which apparently triggered the smoke detector. Presumably they had a laugh, slapped each other’s backs and departed to Kuala Lumpur.
SIA however has pooh-poohed (heheh, poo-poo) the gassy reports aside, citing that there was no evidence that animal flatulence was the cause.
An SIA spokesperson did confirm however that SQ flight 7108 did land at Bali that day after receiving a warning from the onboard fire alarm system, TODAY reports.
No evidence of fire or smoke was found on that freighter plane, but neither did they confirm that the smoke alert was due to an overwhelming amount of sheep farts.
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