Animal sacrifice gets jetliner up and away again

Breaking jetliners have been in the news more than a few times this summer, with a China Southern Airlines plane exploding in Okinawa, Japan, or a short runway leading to a plane crashing into a fuel depot in Brazil to name but a couple. But surely the strangest incident of egging a jet back into service happened in Nepal this weekend.

Two goats were sacrificed in front of a Boeing 757 jet owned by the national carrier of the country, Royal Nepal Air. Whether this comforts, disgusts or just assures never to book with a Nepalese airline, the strategy of sacrificing the two goats to the Sky God Akash Bhairab seems to have done something, as shortly after the unsolvable electrical problems on the plane were declared fixed and the aircraft was returned to service.

The sacrifice was carried out after technical problems could not be solved, grounding the airplane and heavily delaying service. Whether this incident will assure that animal sacrifice becomes the first-and not the last-line of defense against electrical fallout remains to be seen.

Animal sacrifice gets jetliner up and away again

Breaking jetliners have been in the news more than a few times this summer, with a China Southern Airlines plane exploding in Okinawa, Japan, or a short runway leading to a plane crashing into a fuel depot in Brazil to name but a couple. But surely the strangest incident of egging a jet back into service happened in Nepal this weekend.

Two goats were sacrificed in front of a Boeing 757 jet owned by the national carrier of the country, Royal Nepal Air. Whether this comforts, disgusts or just assures never to book with a Nepalese airline, the strategy of sacrificing the two goats to the Sky God Akash Bhairab seems to have done something, as shortly after the unsolvable electrical problems on the plane were declared fixed and the aircraft was returned to service.

The sacrifice was carried out after technical problems could not be solved, grounding the airplane and heavily delaying service. Whether this incident will assure that animal sacrifice becomes the first-and not the last-line of defense against electrical fallout remains to be seen.

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