Swine Flew

A South African Airways jet carrying 300 passengers from England to South Africa had to turn back and make an emergency landing. Flatulence from 72 stud pigs in its cargo hold set off a fire alarm, causing the automatic release of fire suppressing halon gas — which suffocated 15 of the pigs. The “prize” pigs were on the passenger plane because passenger flights are “less traumatic than going on a freighter flight,” an airline spokesman said. (Reuters) ...I don’t think I want to know what goes on during freight flights.