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| Goats sacrificed for troubled Nepal airliner |
| 2007-09-05 |
| Nepal’s troubled national carrier has taken a spiritual approach to recent maintenance troubles with one of its Boeing 757s by sacrificing two goats in front of the plane to appease a Hindu god. The carrier was forced to suspend international flights for around 10 days in August as both the aircraft it uses for foreign flights were grounded due to technical problems. “Nepal Airline Corporation officials worshipped the aircraft by sacrificing two goats to avoid technical glitches while flying,” airline spokesman Raju Bahadur KC told AFP Tuesday. “The goats were offered to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu god of sky protection, whose symbol is printed on all of our aircraft,” he explained. The goats were beheaded with a khukuri, a traditional curved knife, in front of the plane on Saturday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 So for big problems do they use water buffalo? |
| Posted by: tzsenator 2007-09-05 21:28 |
| #7 The goats were saved by Airbus employees who then used them for purposes of personal pleasure. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-09-05 14:45 |
| #6 News reports say Airbust tried it for the A380, but the goats are about two years away from delivery and several hundred pounds overweight. No word if these goats will be suitable for carrying anybody of strictly for cargo....... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-09-05 14:07 |
| #5 Sounds like the maintenance plan for 72 Virgin Airways. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-09-05 13:56 |
| #4 Just last night I was watching Dirty Jobs in which Mike Rowe (and his camera guy!) had to get all Tyvek'd up to crawl into the 104-year old boiler of a 104-year old steam powered yacht to scrape carbon and other foul deposits off the inside with a wire brush. The deposits have to get scraped off because the Coast Guard was coming for its periodic inspection, in which *they* crawl inside the boiler to have a look around. I'm sure that Mike, the yacht's regular maintenance crew, and the Coast Guard inspectors would all prefer to stand on the dock and slaughter cute li'l goats, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that maintenance and proper inspection tend to have more consistent results. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-09-05 09:31 |
| #3 Did it work? |
| Posted by: Boeing Tedhnical Support 2007-09-05 09:02 |
| #2 I don't suppose there's an entry for "goats, sacrifice of" in the Boeing maintenance manual. |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-09-05 06:16 |
| #1 Somebody should tell these guys it's the 21st century. If you are using goats as your maintenance crew and you want to prevent crashes, then throw a couple into each running engine before each take-off. Works every time. Even the gods have to change with the times. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-09-05 03:18 |