KLM pilot makes unplanned landing due to ‘obnoxious’ smell from 100 live pigs on board

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/>