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So This Happened of the Day: Tired of waiting for American Airlines to apologize to him for kicking him off a plane for being rude, Alec Baldwin made a surprise appearance on last night’s Weekend Update to apologize to himself on behalf of American Airlines.
[snl.]
Allegedly Deadly Deal of the Day: A family in Miami is suing the recently bankrupted legacy carrier American Airlines and its caterer, LSG Sky Chefs, for allegedly killing one of its members with tainted airline food.
Othon Cortes reportedly consumed a chicken dish served on a flight en route to New York from Barcelona. His wife and daughter claim in the suit that the food was contaminated with bacteria, and ultimately resulted in his death.
Sky Chefs, the company that actually makes the airline food people often figuratively claim is lethal, is looking to have the case thrown out. It says it did not cater “the Barcelona flight in question.”
Cortes, according to court documents, felt “discomfort and pain that included sharp stomach cramps and sudden thirst” while awaiting a connecting flight to Miami. Once aboard the plane, Cortes experienced a cardiac event which forced the plane to land in Norfolk, Virginia.
A local hospital pronounced him DOA.
According to his family, Cortes died of consuming chicken contaminated with Clostridium perfringens — a common cause of food poisoning.
[cnn / image: airlinemeals.]
Suspicions On A Plane of the Day: In two separate instances yesterday, fighter jets were scrambled to escort commercial airliners following reports of bizarre bathroom behavior.
In the first incident, a passenger aboard an American Airlines en route to JFK from LAX alerted a flight attendant to three men — later identified as two Israelis and a Russian — who were making “frequent” trips to the restroom.
Air marshals sounded the all clear after it turned out they were using the bathroom to, you know, do bathroom stuff.
In the second apparently-scramble-worth event, three people were removed from a Frontier Airlines flight in handcuffs after crew members reported that at least two of the troublemakers were spending “an extraordinarily long time” in the plane’s bathroom.
Turns out they were just making out in there.
It was unclear how the third person was mixed up with the Mile High Club members, but I like where this is going.
