Onions Make You Cry, Bring Down Planes

An Italian flight crew had to make an emergency landing at Logan recently because a "foul odor" overcame them on the plane. Everyone wound up being all right, but airport officials were worried about toxins and other possible nefarious goings-on.

Now we know that the foul odor was relatively harmless, at least in small quantities. The Herald reports that the aforementioned odor was actually four pallets of onions. Really stinky ones, apparently.

But the real story is the lack of class displayed by an anonymous "public safety source," who said of the Italian flight crew: "You’d think of all people, that crew would know what an onion smells like."

Of all people? What's that mean?

Anyway, if you've ever cut an onion, we can imagine that having a bunch of them in the cargo hold would get a little, ahem, malodorous.

Image of an onion from Wikipedia.