Goats and Aircraft Engineering

[amadeus]

You can't make this stuff up.

Goats sacrificed to fix Nepal jet

Nepal's state-run airline has confirmed that it sacrificed two goats to appease a Hindu god, following technical problems with one of its aircraft.

Nepal Airlines said the animals were slaughtered in front of the plane - a Boeing 757 - at Kathmandu airport.

The offering was made to Akash Bhairab, the Hindu god of sky protection, whose symbol is seen on the company's planes.

The airline said that after Sunday's ceremony the plane successfully completed a flight to Hong Kong.

"The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights," senior airline official Raju KC was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Nepal Airlines has two Boeing aircraft in its fleet.

The persistent faults with one of the planes had led to the postponement of a number of flights in recent weeks.

The company has not said what the problem was, but reports in local media have blamed an electrical fault.

Do you laugh or cry at something like this?

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[George2816]

i don't really care. Now if this happened in the USA would people care?

 

[puglover]

Kind of funny what superstition will do to your behavior.

 

[Masquerouge]

I don't think I'll ever fly Nepal Air, but if I get the chance to I won't.

 

[George2816]

I don't think I'll ever fly Nepal Air, but if I get the chance to I won't.

would you ever fly in a plane that people prayed about having a safe flight???

 

[skadistic]

I just hope they served the goat for the in-flight meal.

 

[nivi]

would you ever fly in a plane that people prayed about having a safe flight???

If the company had flawless safety record, sure.

 

[QuoVadisNation]

Actually, I'm fairly certain if residents of Texas sacrificed a cow by slitting its underbelly and allowing the blood to stream down the exterior of the plane in order to please Jesus and Jehovah, I'm pretty sure that would make the news..


Regardless, I don't believe a company would be as so silly and risk so great accident without taking any greater precautions other than killing a goat. Maybe it was an advertising stunt? Their company's airplane symbol is, after all, the avatar of the god they sacrificed the goat to. 50 percent says their profits will skyrocket by next Hindu new year.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Did they get a mechanic to look at the plane as well, or just slaughter a goat and pray for the best?

Because there's a pretty big difference there.

 

[CaptainF]

Do you laugh or cry at something like this?

Definitely laugh!

Though I hope they didn't just waste that sheep. Mutton and curry is a primo meal.

 

[bathsheba666]

I used to regularly fly this airline home from Frankfurt for the weekend for just under 12 months around 96.

Cheap and easy to book late or just turn up..

Then, those aircraft looked pretty new.....

 

[Perfection]

Kind of funny what superstition will do to your behavior.

I've heard of this one group of superstitious people that get up way early in the weekend morning to go sit in a building and sing and listen to boring stuff.

Those dudes are wasting all thier hard earned weekends

 

[Masquerouge]

would you ever fly in a plane that people prayed about having a safe flight???

I will not fly in an airplane where the sole maintenance done is prayer, no.

 

[El_Machinae]

It worked, didn't it? Huh? HUH?

 

[skadistic]

It worked, didn't it? Huh? HUH?

Correlation doesn't equal causation.......... or something like that.

 

[GinandTonic]

Did they get a mechanic to look at the plane as well, or just slaughter a goat and pray for the best?

Because there's a pretty big difference there.

They kept fixing a problem, and it kept shifting. Irritated by the continual and seemingly unresolvable hassles the next time they fixed it they wacked a couple of goats to be on the safe side.

I'm just hoping they did they cooked them up with the same dry sauce my local nepalese resteraunt uses for mutton. Mmmmmm, nepalese mutton.

 

[puglover]

I've heard of this one group of superstitious people that get up way early in the weekend morning to go sit in a building and sing and listen to boring stuff.

Those dudes are wasting all thier hard earned weekends

Hey, at least we don't kill and eat our Sunday school teachers when the service is over.

 

[Kozmos]

One must appease the Machine Spirits and thank them for your safe arrival, no matter where you may go.

@Perf: What is with your avatar? It seems like someone is touching you......inappropriately.

 

[Bill3000]

Hey, at least we don't kill and eat our Sunday school teachers when the service is over.

I dunno, I would like a taste of that...

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Hey, at least we don't kill and eat our Sunday school teachers when the service is over.

Well... you do drink the blood of your saviour (apparently, if you are Catholic). He is kind of like a Sunday school teacher...