Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god

[KeithMEL]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...IRLINE-odd.xml

Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.

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[singaporu_kooku]

I wonder if SQ ever sacrificed merlion head for the safety for its passengers... LOL...

[Lobster]

Somehow this does not fill me with a lot of confidence in the airline.

[SQflyergirl]

Yes, well, I've heard of that remedy before. It's somewhere in the Boeing Manuals.

Could be a little different on an A330, being fly-by-wire and all. That might require chickens instead.

[flyguy]

let them be as their customs - even for this "ghost festival"month - even fairly large place for offerings been used within the engineering hanger or rather just outside the hanger - as its part of customs for chinese here.

[KeithMEL]

Or shredding squirrels, as in the case of a certain Dutch SCARYteam member.

[SuperFlyBoy]

I wonder if SQ ever sacrificed merlion head for the safety for its passengers... LOL...

They just sacrificed countless heads of current (or ex!) PPS members, right!! (myself included!)

(That was for the safety of the *paying* F and C pax..and possibly the safety of the lounge dragons! )