Terror At 35,000 Feet

Forget binary liquid explosives, a British Airways stewardess has shown how it’s really done by popping her curry ready meal into a 747’s club class microwave, with explosive results.

As if rehearsing for an episode of Sky One’s Brainiac, her curry detonated inside the microwave causing £20,000 worth of damage.

The transatlantic flight from Heathrow carried on to Miami after cabin crew grabbed a fire extinguisher to douse the blazing oven, reports The Sun.

British Airways insisted there was no threat to passengers’ safety - although the Boeing 747 needed days of repairs.

The air hostess was heating up a ready meal she bought from a supermarket when the curry exploded.

BA has now banned staff from using new high-powered microwaves in club class kitchens for non-airline food on its fleet of jumbos. A secret memo emailed to all BA long-haul crews - entitled ‘Microwave incident’ - warns that grub needs special packaging because the ovens are twice as strong as domestic ones.

It says the incident with the curry had ‘disastrous consequences’. One BA employee said, “Many cabin crew like to bring their own meals to eat. At first we thought the microwaves were a godsend. But this unfortunate incident has left us with egg on our faces.” (shouldn’t that be Korma on their faces?)