A flight headed to Mexico went a little “hog wild” when the pilot decided to make an unplanned landing due to an “obnoxious smell” coming from the live pigs the plane was carrying, along with human passengers. Dutch airline KLM was carrying 259 passengers and heading to Mexico City from Amsterdam – with 100 live pigs in tow – on Dec 13 at about 3pm on flight KL685. Six hours into the flight, the pilot submitted a request to land, British tabloid Daily Mail reported on Dec 16. The flight then made an unplanned landing in Bermuda. AviationSource news.com confirmed in its report that an emergency was not declared, with the flight landing in Bermuda’s LF Wade International Airport approximately 45 minutes after the diversion was initiated. When the pilot made a request to land following the reported stench coming from the cargo area of the plane, he was asked to confirm by the tower if there were live pigs on board. The pilot then said: “Yeah, and they are probably the starter of the inconvenience so they have to be offloaded, but we’ll see about that later on,” according to the Daily Mail. It is not known why the flight was carrying live pigs with humans. After disembarking in Bermuda, passengers and crew were put up in hotels for the night as the aeroplane, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, had to be properly ventilated due to “oxygen issues”, the report said.<br/>
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The transport ministry said Thursday it has imposed fines on Korean Air, Delta Air Lines and Air Astana JSC for violating Korea's aviation laws during operations. Korean Air, Korea's leading carrier, was fined 25m won ($17,221) for keeping passengers on board for four hours and eight minutes while the aircraft was on the runway during takeoff preparations on its Incheon-Delhi flight on July 23. By law, aircraft with passengers on board cannot remain still on the tarmac for more than three hours for domestic flights and four hours for international flights. Delta Air Lines was fined 35m won for keeping passengers on the runway for four hours and 58 minutes during its Incheon-Atlanta flight on Aug. 24, and also failing to report the fares for its new Incheon-Salt Lake City route to the ministry before selling tickets. Air Astana was fined 10m won for failing to properly report fare details for its Incheon-Astana route, according to the ministry. <br/>