{"id":6008,"date":"2010-10-23T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T14:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6008"},"modified":"2010-10-23T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T14:47:27","slug":"protip-crocs-are-not-considered-appropriate-hand-luggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/23\/protip-crocs-are-not-considered-appropriate-hand-luggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Protip: crocs are not considered appropriate hand luggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least, not in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/news\/crocodile-on-a-plane-kills-19\/story-e6frfq80-1225942045322\" target=\"_blank\">cases like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A stowaway crocodile on a flight escaped from its carrier bag and sparked an onboard stampede that caused the flight to crash, killing 19 passengers and crew.<\/p>\n<p><p>The croc had been hidden in a passenger&#8217;s sports bag &mdash; allegedly with plans to sell it &mdash; but it tore loose and ran amok, sparking panic.<\/p>\n<p>A stampede of terrified passengers caused the small aircraft to lose balance and tip over in mid-air during an internal flight in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>The unbalanced load caused the aircraft, on a routine flight from the capital, Kinshasa, to the regional airport at Bandundu, to go into a spin and crash into a house.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, not in cases like this: A stowaway crocodile on a flight escaped from its carrier bag and sparked an onboard stampede that caused the flight to crash, killing 19 passengers and crew. The croc had been hidden in a passenger&#8217;s sports bag &mdash; allegedly with plans to sell it &mdash; but it tore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362],"tags":[123,202],"class_list":["post-6008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","tag-aircraft","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1yU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6009,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions\/6009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}