Amazing Things Fungi Can Do: Diverting a Plane
They can degrade chitin, clean up environmental toxins and make beer — but did you know that fungi can also change the course of a passenger jet? It happened on Monday. Mushrooms made a plane bound from Budapest to Dublin land in Frankfurt.
A bag of mushrooms grounds Ryanair flightFungal terrorists were at work. I never did trust those Agaricus bisporus. Now we'll no doubt see generic profiling of fungi attempting to board planes and perfectly honest agarics will be unable to fly.
by MILES ERWIN
A Ryanair plane was forced to make an emergency landing – because of a bag of mushrooms...
...as the mushrooms defrosted, juice seeped through the locker and dripped on to a passenger who suffered an allergic reaction...
The aircraft was diverted to Frankfurt-Hahn airport in Germany after the passenger complained of a swollen neck and started choking.
Doctors transferred the passenger to a nearby hospital and grounded the jet saying the mushrooms had contaminated the plane's air conditioning system...
