Bride's bouquet brings down plane-crashes into hostel

[RamboLiberal]

The traditional throwing of a bride's bouquet for luck ended in disaster at an Italian wedding when the flowers caused a plane to crash.

The bride and groom had hired a small plane to fly past and throw the bouquet to a line of women guests, Corriere della Sera reported.

However, the flowers were sucked into the plane's engine causing it to catch fire and explode.

The aircraft plunged into a hostel. One passenger on the plane was badly hurt.

But about 50 people who had been in the hostel escaped unscathed, as did the pilot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8149910.stm

[Flying Dream Blues]

1. Talk about a bad sign, huh? Lucky nobody was killed. nt

[hlthe2b]

5. Oohh... that's one bad omen to start a marriage on...

(if you believe in that kind of thing)

Regardless, it is one sad story.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. !!! That is just awful. I really can't imagine, though, needing a plane to

toss a bouquet.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Plane...

...catches fire...

...explodes...

...crashes...

No one killed.

Pilot unharmed.

WTF?

[damntexdem]

4. I'm a hosteler -- and were I in that hostel, I would be hostile to that wedding party.

;-)

[merh]

6. Well duh - everyone knows it is bad luck unless the bride

throws the bouquet. :dunce:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. Shoulda stuck to turkeys. They fly clear of the engines.

[dysfunctional press]

9. "as god as my witness..."

"...i thought turkeys could fly"

[mikelgb]

8. Holy Matrimony

[dysfunctional press]

10. what kind of plane were they flying?

some type of rear-engine prop plane?

[RamboLiberal]

11. You got me curious - Ultralight rear engine

ultralight plane after the bridal bouquet they launched got caught in the aircraft's rear rotor.

The flowers blocked the engine, bringing the plane down by a youth hostel.

Police in the nearby town of Piombino said Tuesday the pilot was lightly injured in Saturday's crash, while the passenger who threw the bouquet had several broken bones.

The bride and groom were not aboard the plane.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hA-4sQcNd7WGbwtMce7kcCPcsZeAD99EDEAG1

[Stevenmarc]

12. That would have made a great epiosode of Bridezillas