Here’s a story worth telling during the holidays. “Mommy farted and tried to hide it and the airplane had to make an emergency landing”. An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing because of just that.

An American Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Nashville after passengers reported the smell of sulphur from burning matches.

The matches were found on the seat of a woman who had attempted to conceal the odour of flatulence with the matches, Nashville airport authorities said. […]

“It was determined that she was trying to conceal body odour,” said Lynne Lowrance of the Nashville Airport Authority.

So, apparently this woman thought that she could get away with lighting matches on an airplane without the passengers or crew catching wind of her sneakiness. Tsk tsk. Maybe this woman needs the flatulence concealing underwear insert?