Dispensary Corner 23 Nov 11
November 23, 2011
IMODIUM might have helped.
A Delta Airways pilot sparked
hijacking fears after he got locked
in the toilet mid flight between
North Carolina and New York.
The trouble really escalated
when a concerned passenger
knocked on the cockpit door to
tell the flight crew that the pilot
was trapped.
Unfortunately the co-pilot could
not hear the passenger clearly
and called the flight control tower
saying a passenger with “a thick
foreign accent” is “giving me the
password to access the cockpit”.
“And I’m not about to let him
in,” he added.
The control tower then advised
the co-pilot to declare an
emergency and “just get on the
ground”.
Fortunately however, the pilot
freed himself shortly after and
was able to quell the emergency
saying “The captain - myself -
went back to the lavatory and
the door latched ... I had to fight
my way out of it with my body to
get the door open.”
“There is no issue, no threat.”
SLEEP apnoea in rodents.
A YouTube video of a snoring
dormouse has captured the
hearts of people worldwide,
notching up 305,044 views since
its recent posting.
Conjuring up images of the
snoozy Dormouse from Alice in
Wonderland, this real life
endangered mouse was
hibernating when he was
discovered by researchers from
the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
The researchers were doing a
survey of nesting boxes located
in a forest near Leatherhead,
when they found the dozy
rodent, who stayed snoozing
when he was lifted out of his box
to be measured and weighed.
“It was making a funny
whistling sound every time it
breathed out,” said one researcher.
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