It takes a lot for a plane to make an emergency landing. This time a flight had to land due to a smoke smell which happened to be caused by a man who had homemade lasers on him.
A Sun Country Airlines plane from Minneapolis was carrying 105 passengers and five crew members when the crew detected a smoke smell about 200 miles from the destination, the Telegraph reports.
The place was forced to divert to Spokane, near the border between Washington and Montana. It landed about 15 minutes after the smell was detected.
Emergency services boarded the place upon landing but they could not find any trace of a fire. However, Alex Philip Langloys Miller, an unemployed chemist from Minneapolis, was arrested by the FBI as he was found to be traveling with two small, homemade lasers. There were several small burn hole found in the fabric of the seats near where Miller was sitting. e is now due to face charges of willful damage to an aircraft.
This was the second time in less than a week that a flight had to make an emergency landing due to a unique reason.
A Lufthansa flight from Stockholm, Sweden to Frankfurt, Germany had to be diverted to Copenhagen when passengers smelled a strong odor during the flight on August 30.
The crew decided to divert the plane as a precaution. It landed 15 minutes after the smell was reported and the 129 passenger on the flight had to be moved to other flights. When maintenance staff examined the plane, they found that the off smell had come from a carpet that was recently installed.
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