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2004-07-16 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-07-16 1:21:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Passenger vomitted -- IED?

Posted by Capt America 2004-07-16 2:25:52 AM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/] 2004-07-16 2:25:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Improvised emetic device?

Posted by FlameBait93268 2004-07-16 2:33:17 AM|| 2004-07-16 2:33:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I love the press reports that speculate that, "Airport"-style, the passengers became sick after eating the same food.

Southwest Airlines doesn't serve food on any of its flights. Talk about clueless reporters...are there any other kind?

Posted by gromky 2004-07-16 5:40:17 AM|| 2004-07-16 5:40:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Could just be one sick person who unintentionally infected others. But the incubation time seems awfully short for that.

OTOH, with the tight recycling of air in modern planes, anything sprayed into the air (viruses? bacteria?) would reach everyone really quickly.

sigh.

Posted by rkb 2004-07-16 7:46:11 AM|| 2004-07-16 7:46:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Drudge links a local news story saying it was due to fumes that accumulated in the plane as it sat on the runway overnight.

Posted by rkb 2004-07-16 7:53:54 AM|| 2004-07-16 7:53:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 It could also have been a sympathetic reaction. If you've ever smelled puke in a confined space, and listened to someone bringing up their insides, well, it can cause a spontaneous gag reflex.

CiT

Posted by CiT 2004-07-16 9:10:47 AM|| 2004-07-16 9:10:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Gromky, the original 'food poisoning on airplane' movie was "Zero Hour". The comic version was "Airplane". "Airport" was the nut with bomb, pilot with lover movie.

Posted by Anonymous5759 2004-07-16 9:20:51 AM|| 2004-07-16 9:20:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Thank God it was just vomit and not explosive diarrhea. I hate that...

Posted by Dar 2004-07-16 10:51:22 AM|| 2004-07-16 10:51:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeap,the smell alone is enough to make me gag.

Posted by raptor 2004-07-16 11:02:48 AM|| 2004-07-16 11:02:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 see vomit and pontaneously erupt in vomiting..

Posted by Dan 2004-07-16 11:10:48 AM|| 2004-07-16 11:10:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 oops..left off the 's' doooh

see vomit and spontaneously erupt in vomiting..

Posted by Dan 2004-07-16 11:11:17 AM|| 2004-07-16 11:11:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 I have a disasterously low gross-out threshhold--- just hearing someone toss their cookies, and the smell of vomit in a confined space--- sorry, I'd be losing it, too.
Actually, I am getting a little queasy just now, just from imagining it....

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-07-16 11:49:58 AM|| [www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-07-16 11:49:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 If you've ever been stuck in an enclosed space where someone has just vomited - classroom, van, etc. - you'll understand.

Posted by BH 2004-07-16 12:49:06 PM|| 2004-07-16 12:49:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Just for curiossity-sake: anybody heard anything about problems with the cabin-pressure?

Posted by Evert Visser in NL 2004-07-16 1:09:18 PM|| 2004-07-16 1:09:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Try it in an APC - ah. . . the smell of diesel fumes, temperature about 110F, stale sweat, assorted body funk and the guy next to you yakking it up. Boy that's livin'!

Apologies Sgt. Mom.

Posted by Doc8404 2004-07-16 1:50:06 PM|| 2004-07-16 1:50:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Accepted, Doc8404, and I... oh, oh.
*urk-urk-urk... bleagh!*
Too late. Sorry about the mess. Pass me the paper towels, or something.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-07-16 3:15:22 PM|| [www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-07-16 3:15:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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